Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

P. " When he went out through the land of Egypt." The text is : " In hia going against the land of Egypt." This may be explained of the visitation of God on the first born. Several ancient versions agree with the Vulgate.

II. P. " I heard a language that I understood not." St. Jerome agrees. The Psalmist speaks in the name of the Israelites, when sojourners in Egypt, where they heard a language unknown to their fathers. They preserved their own tongue during their bondage, and went forth from the midst of a people of a strange tongue. Ps. cxiii.

A Hebraism for : He removed the burdens from hia back. H. P. " I removed." St. Jerome likewise has the first person.

Hods, or other vessels for the bricks or mortar. The text states that his hands passed from them, that is, he was relieved from the hard task. P. " The pots."

H. P. "In the secret place of thunder." St. Jerome gives the same version, A thunder-storm took place at the passage of the Ked Sea. Ps. Ixxvi. 17.