Lectures Introductory to the Pentateuch [Paperback]

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William Kelly's express intention was to trace in each inspired book the perfect design of the Spirit of God, and yet to explore how this design varies from book to book and yet results in a unified and magnificent revelation of God's mind and will.

Excerpt from the Introduction- Thus, in Genesis, couched under the simplest forms of word or deed, are seen the great principles of divine action and relationship with man from the earliest days, which look on typically to the last: creation, human responsibility, sin, revelation of a Deliverer in grace, sacrifice in faith, the world in its worship and in its outward progress, translation to heaven, corruption and violence on earth, providential judgment and deliverance through it, covenant with the earth, human government ordained but of God, combination of men in pride, dispersion into nations, tribes, and tongues by divine judgment; calling by grace as a separate witness for the God of promise; the risen son and heir with the calling of the bride; the election for the earth cast out for a time, but after humbling experiences restored and blessed and a blessing; and this in connection with a holy sufferer rejected by his brethren, sold to the Gentiles, but by this very path of sorrow exalted over the world while unknown to Israel, and receiving a Gentile bride, but finally making himself known to his brethren preserved through their secret trouble, and now owning in him the grace and glory they had so long despised and hated.

In Exodus we see, not individuals or a family, but a people, God’s people, redeemed from the house of bondage and brought to God from the world which falls under His mighty hand, and inflictions in an ever rising character until chastening slighted ends in exterminating judgment; but the people of God themselves failing to appreciate His grace which led them all the instructive way from Egypt to Sinai, and voluntarily accepting conditions of obeying the law as the means and tenure of divine privilege, yet even in the shadows of the tabernacle, and so forth, having His grace in Christ typified with striking variety and fullness.

Leviticus next presents God from the tabernacle laying down the means and character and consequences of access to Himself by sacrifice and priesthood and ordinances for food, birth, disease, infirmity, and so forth, and feasts for the people in the midst of whom He dwells, with the prophecy of their ruin and exile for rebellious and idolatrous unbelief, but of their restoration when they should repent by His grace, and so enjoy the promises made to their fathers.

The book of Numbers gives us the sojourn and march of the people through the desert, with the provisions of grace, the full account of their unbelief as to both the way and the end, the judgment of presumption and rebellion, and the effort of the enemy to hinder turned of God into the grandest vindication of His people and assurance of future glory when He judges the world, with facts and ordinances which look onward to their possession of the promised land.

Deuteronomy is not only a farewell moral rehearsal of the law, but also of God’s ways with Israel, enforcing obedience as the way of blessing; as the last words of him who was the chief type of Messiah as Prophet, it urges on the people, just about to enter the land, a more direct relationship with Jehovah their God, and, while predicting their ruin through disobedience, points darkly to “secret things,” the resources of divine mercy in which He will more than retrieve all to their blessedness and His own glory in the latter day.

There is in this way a deep inward connection as well as progress in the five books of Moses, and the reader who looks below the surface will find proofs of this multiplying on his prayerful study; but the same principle is true of the entire Bible from Genesis to the Revelation, the links between which are as strong as they are numerous, and those comparatively indirect or latent so much the more undeniable a testimony to the One Divine Author of them all.

Table of Contents

1. Preface

2. Introduction

3. Genesis 1

4. Genesis 2

5. Genesis 3

6. Genesis 4

7. Genesis 5

8. Genesis 6

9. Genesis 7

10. Genesis 8

11. Genesis 9

12. Genesis 10

13. Genesis 12-25 - Introduction

14. Genesis 11

15. Genesis 12

16. Genesis 13

17. Genesis 14

18. Genesis 15

19. Genesis 16

20. Genesis 17

21. Genesis 18

22. Genesis 19

23. Genesis 20

24. Genesis 21

25. Genesis 22

26. Genesis 23-24

27. Genesis 25

28. Genesis 26

29. Genesis 27

30. Genesis 28

31. Genesis 29

32. Genesis 31

33. Genesis 32

34. Genesis 33

35. Genesis 34

36. Genesis 35

37. Genesis 36

38. Genesis 37

39. Genesis 38

40. Genesis 39

41. Genesis 40

42. Genesis 41

43. Genesis 42

44. Genesis 44

45. Genesis 45

46. Genesis 46

47. Genesis 47

48. Genesis 48

49. Genesis 49

50. Genesis 50

51. Exodus 1

52. Exodus 2

53. Exodus 3

54. Exodus 4

55. Exodus 5

56. Exodus 6

57. Exodus 7

58. Exodus 8

59. Exodus 9

60. Exodus 10

61. Exodus 11

62. Exodus 12

63. Exodus 13

64. Exodus 14

65. Exodus 15

66. Exodus 16

67. Exodus 17

68. Exodus 18

69. Exodus 19

70. Exodus 20

71. Exodus 21-23

72. Exodus 24

73. Exodus 25

74. Exodus 26

75. Exodus 27

76. Exodus 28-29

77. Exodus 30

78. Exodus 31

79. Exodus 32

80. Exodus 33

81. Exodus 34

82. Exodus 35

83. Exodus 36

84. Leviticus 1-15 - Introduction

85. Leviticus 1

86. Leviticus 2

87. Leviticus 3

88. Leviticus 4

89. Leviticus 5

90. Leviticus 6

91. Leviticus 7

92. Leviticus 8

93. Leviticus 9

94. Leviticus 10

95. Leviticus 11

96. Leviticus 12-13

97. Leviticus 14

98. Leviticus 15

99. Leviticus 16-27 - Introduction

100. Leviticus 16

101. Leviticus 17

102. Leviticus 18

103. Leviticus 19

104. Leviticus 20

105. Leviticus 21

106. Leviticus 22

107. Leviticus 23

108. Leviticus 24

109. Leviticus 25

110. Leviticus 26

111. Leviticus 27

112. Numbers 1-10:10 - Introduction

113. Numbers 1

114. Numbers 2

115. Numbers 3

116. Numbers 4

117. Numbers 5

118. Numbers 6

119. Numbers 7

120. Numbers 8

121. Numbers 9

122. Numbers 10

123. Numbers 10:11 - Numbers 21 - Introduction

124. Numbers 11

125. Numbers 12

126. Numbers 13

127. Numbers 14

128. Numbers 15

129. Numbers 16

130. Numbers 17

131. Numbers 18

132. Numbers 19

133. Numbers 20

134. Numbers 21

135. Numbers 22

136. Numbers 23

137. Numbers 24

138. Numbers 25

139. Numbers 26

140. Numbers 27

141. Numbers 28-29

142. Numbers 30

143. Numbers 31

144. Numbers 32

145. Numbers 33

146. Numbers 34-35

147. Numbers 36

148. Deuteronomy 1-16 - Introduction

149. Deuteronomy 1

150. Deuteronomy 2

151. Deuteronomy 3

152. Deuteronomy 4

153. Deuteronomy 5

154. Deuteronomy 6

155. Deuteronomy 7

156. Deuteronomy 8

157. Deuteronomy 9

158. Deuteronomy 10

159. Deuteronomy 11

160. Deuteronomy 12

161. Deuteronomy 13

162. Deuteronomy 14

163. Deuteronomy 15

164. Deuteronomy 16

165. Deuteronomy 16:18 - Deuteronomy 34 - Introduction

166. Deuteronomy 17

167. Deuteronomy 18

168. Deuteronomy 19

169. Deuteronomy 20

170. Deuteronomy 21

171. Deuteronomy 22

172. Deuteronomy 23

173. Deuteronomy 24

174. Deuteronomy 25

175. Deuteronomy 26

176. Deuteronomy 27 & 28

177. Deuteronomy 29

178. Deuteronomy 30

179. Deuteronomy 31

180. Deuteronomy 32

181. Deuteronomy 33

182. Deuteronomy 34