The Typology of Scripture: Or the Doctrine of Types Investigated in Its ...
The Typology of Scripture: Or the Doctrine of Types Investigated in Its ...
Patrick Fairbairn
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4, 7, &c.,) lived to a considerable extent intertningled with the Egyptians in their cities, (Ex. iii. 20 — 22; xi. I — ii; xii. 35,36,) were accustomed to the agricuK tural occupations peculiar to the country, (Deut. xi. 10,) took part even in its finest manufactures, such as were prepared for the king, (1 Chron. iv. 21 — 23,) and en;- joyed the best productions both of the river and the land, (Num. xi. 5 ; xx. 5.) It is but natural to suppose, however, that some compulsion was requisite to br...ings them to this state of civilisation and refinement; and as it was a state necessary to fit them for setting up the tabernacle and occupying aright the land of Canaan, Wa lee the overruling hand of God in the very compulsion that was exercised* 24 / THK BOITDAXJB. God declared in his Wolcd, concur in opposing that propensity to rest which belongs to the human mind; and combine to necessitate submission to the hard, yet salutary conditions, under which alone the most extreme evils may be held in abeyance, and any degree of happiness enjoyed^ A task and duty is to be fulfilled, in dis- charging which the want of energy is ptinished even more imme- diately and more severely than the want of virtuous motives/' He proceeds to show that the notices we have of the heavenly world, imply the existence there of hrtelligent and vigorous agents: — ' - ^ " But if there be a- real apd necessaiT", not merely a shadowy, agency in heaven as well as on earth; and if human nature is des- tined to act itg part in s'uch an economy, then its constitution, and the severe training it undergoes, are at once explained; and then also the removal of individuals in the very prime of their fitness for useful labouTy ceases to be impenetrably mysterious.
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