Q. 2.-" In what respect does Acts correspond with Exodus?" J. H. H.

Ans.-In general, Exodus is the book of salvation of Israel from Egypt (answering to the significance of its number-2.) Acts is the history of the actual salvation of the people from Judaism and the law to Christianity. While the death and resurrection of our Lord, prefigured by the opening of the waters of the Red Sea, are not recorded in this book, their effects and benefits form the theme of the whole; beginning with the descent of the Holy Ghost, answering to the pillar of cloud and fire, who is the Guide and Power of the true Israel of God. The power of Judaism has become a world-power, and, linked with the Gentiles, forms a bondage of which Pharaoh's sway was a fitting illustration. It is not meant that every portion of the book will have an exact correspondence in the other, but that in general the themes are similar. No doubt, too, careful study will bring out more exact resemblances as Paul's conversion and ministry answering to the tabernacle and its service, while the deliverance from law, for the Gentile Christians in the fifteenth chapter would be rather a contrast to Israel's deliberate acceptance of law at Sinai.