Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Moses sang not merely as private devotion but as testimony; he summoned the people as eyewitnesses to a witnessed fact, so that 600,000 men and their families became living proof no falsehood could hide. Yet their voices joined his only by compulsion, ingratitude followed swiftly after. Still, he set them the pattern: each must sing what he prescribes, not in Moses' person alone but in the heart of every believer.
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Those who held their peace while deliverance was working must not hold it when the work is done. Singing psalms is the language of holy joy as prayer is of holy desire. Strike while the mercy is fresh; when the heart is most affected, praise returns quickest to God, before time and our own deceitfulness dull the impression.
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Commenting on Exodus 15:1-21
This is the first song of Scripture on record, though praise existed before. Moses the deliverer and composer was a type of Christ; Israel singing with him typified the spiritual Israel redeemed by Him; the Red Sea deliverance prefigured redemption itself. In the latter age, when antichrist falls, a like song shall rise, the song of Moses and the Lamb.
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