Book of Exodus Message, Themes, Characters, and New Testament Context Section 1: The Book of Exodus and its MessageIn his hypothesis of structures, the logician Plato suggests that the items and circumstances experienced in the ordinary world are regularly characteristic of a higher and more full reality. While Plato didn't have the Old Testament as a primary concern when he composed The Republic, his idea of reality addresses the connection between the feature of Jewish sacred writing, Ve-eleh Shemoth, also called Exodus, and the occasions that would inevitably turn into the focal point of Christianity. From multiple points of view, the Exodus is the topical well from which the remainder of the Bible draws. In its pages, one finds the takeoff of Israel from subjection in Egypt, the disclosure of the Law on Mount Sinai, the excursion towards Canaan, and the beginnings of Judaic strict practice.
