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Episode: To Deny CHRIST: Part 10 Making Bricks Without Straw
Description: Exodus 5:9-11
“Let the work be heavy (press heavily) upon the people, and they shall make with it (i.e., stick to their work), and not look at lying words.” By “lying words” the king meant the words of Moses, that the God of Israel had appeared to him, and demanded a sacrificial festival from His people. In Exo_5:11 special emphasis is laid upon אַתֶּם “ye:” “Go, ye yourselves, fetch your straw,” not others for you as heretofore; “for nothing is taken (diminished) from your work.” The word כִּי for has been correctly explained by Kimchi as supposing a parenthetical thought, et quidem alacriter vobis eundum...