Exodus 10:1
_Servants. They took occasion, from God's withdrawing his chastisements, to become more obdurate. (St. Augustine, q. 30, and 36.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Servants. They took occasion, from God's withdrawing his chastisements, to become more obdurate. (St. Augustine, q. 30, and 36.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Scandal, or source of repeated misery; whether they meant their own resistance to God's orders, or Moses, with the Hebrew nation. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Herds. Out of which the Lord may choose what victims he requires. (Menochius) --- The people of Egypt kept solemnities of this description. (Herod. ii. 58, 59.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_So be. A form of imprecation mixed with scorn: as, I shall not let you go, so may God abandon you. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Desired. Moses had requested that all might go. He had not specified the men only, as the king boldly asserts. (Menochius) --- A partial obedience will not rescue him from the threatened plague. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wind from "the south," (Septuagint) or "east," ( Kadim) or perhaps blowing from the south-east. (Bonfrere) The locusts would come from Ethiopia, or from Arabia, in both which countries they abound. (Ludolf, &c.) They lay their eggs in autumn, and hatch in spring. Frequently they devastate one count... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hereafter. Joel i. 2, speaking of locusts which infested Judea, uses the same expressions to denote a very heavy judgment. Two events never perfectly agree. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Also. Hebrew, "only," and I will amend. --- Death, or plague. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Moses. The printed Hebrew and Chaldean do not read his name; but some manuscripts have it agreeably to the Septuagint and Syriac versions. (Kennicott)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_West. Hebrew sea, (Mediterranean) to the north and west of Egypt. --- Red sea. Hebrew, "of suph," or green herbs, which abound there. It has also a reddish appearance in some places, from the coral branches of a saffron colour. It probably was called red from Edom, or Erythros, the son of Isaac. (C... [ Continue Reading ]
_Darkness upon the land of Egypt so thick that it may be felt. By means of the gross exhalations, which were to cause and accompany the darkness. (Challoner) --- Thus were the Egyptians punished for keeping the Hebrews in dark prisons. (Menochius) --- Philo says, even a lighted lamp or fire was exti... [ Continue Reading ]
_More. Of my own accord. (Menochius) --- Thou wilt send for me. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER X.... [ Continue Reading ]