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Exodus recounts the origins of ancient Israel, but it is also a book of religious symbols. How should it be interpreted, especially in light of modern historical-critical study? In this addition to an acclaimed series, a respected scholar offers a theological reading of Exodus that highlights Aquinas’s interpretations of the text. As with other volumes in the series, this commentary is ideal for...

requires. Divine wisdom, therefore, fittingly provides man with means of salvation, in the shape of corporeal and sensible signs that are called sacraments.”7 Accordingly, Exodus is in great part a book about the institution of the sacraments of the Old Law. Second, the revelation of God provides a genuine enlightenment to natural human reason. God is “the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob” (Exod. 3:6), but he is also the God of the philosophers. “In the beginning was the Logos” (John
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