At last the night of freedom has come when, in disciplined array, the Israelite tribes go out from the house of bondage. The flower of Egyptian chivalry, sent in hot pursuit after them, is destroyed; and Moses and the children of Israel burst into triumphal song of thanksgiving and victory at the Red Sea. That song of victory is the zenith of the story of Israel's Redemption from Egypt as told in the first fifteen chapters of Exodus.
This sublime epíé of freedom pro-plaints 10 the children of men, that God, who in Egypt espoused the cause of brickmaking' helots against their royal oppressor, is a God of justice and freedom: and that man, treated in the Divine image, has an inalienable right to justice amd freedom, Most nations have at some time in their history forgotten or rejected this san-redeeming message of ihe Passover with calamitous results.
Rabbinic legend tells us that Pharaoh did not share the fate of his horsemen at the Rêd Sea. He alone ka pet crowning; Gs puo he escaped death. He stands forever at the gates of Hell, and as in the course of centuries oppressor after oppressor enters, he them with the words "Why have ye not profited by my example"?
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