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Gen_15:10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
Ver. 10. Divided them in the midst.] In signum exitii foedifrago eventuri . This was the federal rite both among Jews {Jer_34:18-19} and Gentiles, as it is to be seen in Virgil, {a} describing the covevant of Romulus and Tatius. God also threateneth to cut the evil servant in twain ( äé÷ïôïìçóåé ) that forgetteth the covenant of his God. {Mat_24:51} These dissected creatures are the oppressed Israelites; the parts laid each against other signify, that God will make them up again, though dissected; the fowls that came down upon them, are the Egyptians; Abram’s chasing them away, is their deliverance by Moses after four hundred years, signified by those four kinds of creatures, as Luther interpreteth.
{a} Aeneid., lib. viii.