Exodus 9:14-16

The announcement of the plague (vv.13, 17 18) is interrupted by a passage, intended evidently (Di.) to explain why, when so many plagues have produced no impression upon the Pharaoh, God continues to send fresh ones upon him: He does so in order to extort from him the recognition of Himself, and that His name may be made known throughout the world; had this not been His motive, He would ere now have summarily removed him from the earth. By Di. and others this explanation (vv.14 16) is considered to be a didactic addition of the compiler's (cf. on Exodus 10:1). Cf. the Introd. p. xvii.