The fourfold salvation from sin of the Christian, was strikingly typified in God's dealings with the Nation of Israel of old. First we have a vivid portrayal of their deliverance from the pleasure or love of sin, -And the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. And God heard their groaning- -Exo. 2-23, 24-. What a contrast does that present from what we read of in the closing chapters of Genesis- There we hear the king of Egypt saying to Joseph, -The land of Egypt is before you-in the best of the land make your father and brethren to dwell- in the land of Goshen- -47-6-. Accordingly we are told, -And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen- and they had possessions therein, and grew and multiplied exceedingly- -47-27-. Now Egypt is the Old Testament symbol of the world, as a system opposed to God. And it was there, in the -best part- of it, the descendants of Abraham had settled. But the Lord had designs of mercy and something far better for them-yet before they could appreciate Canaan-they had to be weaned from Egypt. Hence we find them in cruel bondage there, smarting under the lash of the taskmasters. In this way they were made to loathe Egypt and long for deliverance therefrom.