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OSES was a representative character, as were all the prophets. In one sense they represented the Lord; and in another, the church. Our Lord, to shew this, said to the disciples journeying to Emmaus, after his resurrection, "Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself." (Luke xxiv. 26, 27). In this passage Moses may be considered to represent that part of the Word called the law; while the prophets are represented by those books which, in other parts of the Word of God, are called Elias; and on this account, at the transfiguration, Moses and Elias were seen talking with the Lord.

Moses, as the leader sent by the Lord to Pharaoh, to deliver Israel from bondage, showed in his conver-