(v. 14), is wholly consonant with what he has already done in overwhelming the chariots of Pharaoh at the Red Sea (v. 16). It is for all your sakes (plural), as individual children of God, that God is now acting, because he has already done this very thing for your fathers in Egypt. Thus ‘for all your sakes’ is as much a promise for us today as it was to Israel in 540 B.C. The argument rests upon history. At the period of the former things (v. 18), God had revealed himself to be the Redeemer
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