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 prototype Moses also did. Their miracles indeed were of a very different nature, and adapted to the no less different dispensations, under which they were wrought. Whilst the latter struck terror and amazement into the minds of the Egyptians, those of the former were calculated to shew the love he has for his people, his feeling for their afflictions, his readiness to relieve them, and his ability to save. Perhaps none of our Saviour's miracles, if we except his raising Lazarus from the dead, display more powerfully his overflowing goodness of heart, and his sympathy with others, when in distress, than the one to be reviewed; and perhaps there is not a subject which the Evangelists have related in terms better calculated to excite pity and call up every generous and tender feeling of the mind. We have only to read the account of it, to be in love with its Author. Every word in the description of it, is big with salutary information, and points out to the feeling mind something that is new, striking or instructive.