Echoes of Exodus Quotes

“Whenever we baptize someone or share in the Lord’s Supper, we are witnessing to ourselves, and to the world around us, that all of us have known slavery. All of us live in hope of a land flowing with milk and honey. And Israel’s God has stepped down to liberate us from the former, and take us triumphantly into the latter.”
― Alastair J. Roberts, Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption through Scripture

“Two major events dominate the rest of the book of Exodus, and both involve building a place of worship: the golden calf and the tabernacle, the false and the true, the problem and the solution. Israel’s worship of the golden calf is a classic fall story, with a command broken by the priest left in charge (Adam/Aaron), the blame shifted to someone else (Eve/Israel), the exposure of shame, a curse involving eating (dust/powder), death, the establishment of sword-wielding guardians (cherubim/”
― Alastair J. Roberts, Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption through Scripture

“The arm of the Lord, as we know by now, is about strength, power, even violence: the mighty hand and the outstretched arm that”
― Alastair J. Roberts, Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption through Scripture

“That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love” (Jon.”
― Alastair J. Roberts, Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption through Scripture

“out of Egypt I called my son”; “I bent down to them and fed them”; “it was I who taught Ephraim to walk”; “they shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, . . . and I will return them to their homes” (Hos. 11:1–”
― Alastair J. Roberts, Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption through Scripture

“mighty hand and an outstretched arm.”
― Alastair J. Roberts, Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption through Scripture

“the God who may appear silent but who hears the cry of”
― Alastair J. Roberts, Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption through Scripture

“The first exodus comes in the midst of a plot that should be familiar to anyone who has read the garden story in Genesis. The people of Israel are fruitful and multiply and fill the land, but the serpent-like king is tricksy, and he attacks the women, with a view to destroying their male descendants. Yet in contrast to the garden story, the women outmaneuver him.”
― Alastair J. Roberts, Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption through Scripture

“Israel sacrificed a Passover lamb so as not have to sacrifice their firstborn sons. God, who is rich in mercy, sacrificed both.”
― Alastair J. Roberts, Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption through Scripture