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Oh, as I read on, Murphy is making the book worth it: On Pharaoh and the plagues: \u201cAs Egypt\u2019s sources of life and fertility are destroyed, plague by plague, so Pharaoh\u2019s respose rigidifies. Pharaoh is progressively mummified.\u201d She later adds: \u201cThe substitution [of Egypt\u2019s firstborn] makes sense if we see Israel\u2019s servitude in Egypt as a kind of death: it is death for death. Israel is lying dead, burdened and weighed down by the pyramids: Egypt has to be sacrificed so that Israel can return to life.\u201d That has significant typological weight, since in the NT Israel herself becomes the \u201cEgypt\u201d that is \u201csacrificed\u201d for the sake of the nations, the \u201cnew Israel.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Oh, as I read on, Murphy is making the book worth it: On Pharaoh and the plagues: \u201cAs Egypt\u2019s sources of life and fertility are destroyed, plague by plague, so Pharaoh\u2019s respose rigidifies. Pharaoh is progressively mummified.\u201d She later adds: \u201cThe substitution [of Egypt\u2019s firstborn] makes sense if we see Israel\u2019s servitude in Egypt as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-ot-exodus"],"yoast_head":"\n