EXODUS CHAPTER 7 God encourages Moses to speak to Pharaoh, EXODUS 7:1. God foretells the hardness of, Pharaoh's heart, that he might multiply his wonders in Egypt, EXODUS 7:3,4 to declare to the Egyptians that he only is the Lord, EXODUS 7:5. Moses and Aaron obey God's command, EXODUS 7:6. Their age... [ Continue Reading ]
Heb. _And he will send or dismiss_, to wit, at last, being forced to it. Success shall attend your endeavours.... [ Continue Reading ]
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An emphatical repetition, to show their courage in attempting to say and do such things to so great a monarch in his own dominions, and their fidelity in the execution of all God's commands.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 1491_ The ages of Moses and Aaron here, as of Levi and Kohath EXODUS 6:16,18, and before them of Jacob and Joseph, are so exactly set down, that thence we may, understand the accomplishment of God's prediction, GENESIS 15:13, and the time of Israel's being in Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
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SAY UNTO AARON, by whose hands this and other miracles were to be done, and not by Moses immediately; partly to take off the some suspicion that these miracles were wrought by magical artifice of Moses; and partly for the greater honour of Moses, that he might be what God had said, EXODUS 7:1, _a go... [ Continue Reading ]
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Under the general title of WISE MEN he seems to comprehend all who were most eminent in any sort of wisdom, either natural, or civil, or divine, who were all called to give their opinion and advice in these matters. THE MAGICIANS, the same now called SORCERERS, who acted by the power of the devil, w... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY BECAME SERPENTS; either, 1. In appearance. For the Scripture oft speaks of things otherwise than they are, because they seem to be so. And therefore as the devil appearing to Saul in the likeness of Samuel is called Samuel; so may these rods upon the same account be called _serpents_, because... [ Continue Reading ]
HE, the Lord, to whom this act of hardening is frequently ascribed both in this book and elsewhere.... [ Continue Reading ]
He is obstinate, and resolved in his way, so as neither my word nor my works can make any impression upon him.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE GOETH OUT UNTO THE WATER, i. e. the Nile, whither he went at that time, either for his recreation, or to pay his morning worship to that river, which the Egyptians had in great veneration, as Plutarch testifies.... [ Continue Reading ]
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Because thou saidst, _Who is the Lord?_ and, _I know not the Lord_, EXODUS 5:2, thou shalt know him experimentally, and to thy cost. _Behold, I will smite_, viz. by Aaron's hand, who shall do it by my command and direction. Thus _Pilate_ is said _to give_ Christ's _body_ to _Joseph_, MARK 15:45, bec... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore the Israelites were free from this plague, and those branches of Nilus which they used were uncorrupted, when all others were turned into blood. SHALL LOTHE, or, _shall weary themselves_, in running hither and thither in hopes of finding water in some parts or branches of the river.... [ Continue Reading ]
Not that he was to go to every pool to use this ceremony there, but he stretched his hand and rod over some of them in the name of all the rest, which he might signify either by his words, or by the various motions of his rod several ways.... [ Continue Reading ]
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It was not difficult for the devil to convey blood speedily and unperceivably, and that in a great quantity, which might suffice to infect with a bloody colour those small parcels of water which were left for them to show their art in. QUEST. Whence could they have water, when all their waters were... [ Continue Reading ]
He did not seriously consider it, nor the causes or cure of this plague, and was not much affected with it, because he saw this fact exceeded not the power of his magicians.... [ Continue Reading ]
It is not much material to us, whether they lost their labour, and found only blood there, as Josephus affirms; or whether they succeeded and found water there, which seems more probable, because these come not within the compass of Moses's commission, EXODUS 7:17,19,20, or whether they found the wa... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR SEVEN DAYS WERE FULFILLED, ere all the waters of Egypt were perfectly free from this infection. QUEST. How could the Egyptians subsist so long without water? ANSW. 1. Philo tells us that many of them died of this plague. 2. As the plague might come on, so it might go off, by degrees; and so th... [ Continue Reading ]