Note 26 — Chapter XIV

But his assurance is, “The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.” When Wellhausen would summarise the work of Moses, he tells us that “he taught them to regard self-assertion against the Egyptians as an article of religion” (History, p. 430). It would be impossible, within the compass of so many words, more completely to miss the remarkable characteristic which differentiates this whole narrative from all other revolutionary movements. Expectancy and dependence here take the place of “self-assertion.”