CONTENTS The history still proceeds through this Chapter. Pharaoh's heart remaining in the same obduracy, Moses is commissioned by the Lord to inflict the eighth and ninth plagues in the punishment of Egypt; the locusts infest his coast, and darkness of three days continuance beclouds his land. At... [ Continue Reading ]
Deuteronomy 6:20... [ Continue Reading ]
Romans 2:4... [ Continue Reading ]
Proverbs 30:27... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe Moses abrupt departure. When an ambassador is withdrawn war is declared. When the Lord's servants are no longer commissioned to plead, destruction is very nigh. 1 Samuel 15:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Kings 5:13... [ Continue Reading ]
Overtures are here made on the part of Pharaoh, but as unsuccessful as the former. 2 Chronicles 25:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
Joel 2:11... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 105:34... [ Continue Reading ]
Deuteronomy 28:38... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe, the prayer of this hardened sinner was not to take away his sin, but to remove the punishment of it? This forms the striking difference between true said false repentance. Thus David says, mine iniquities are too heavy for me to bear. Psalms 38:4. Cain saith my punishment is greater than I... [ Continue Reading ]
What an awful scripture is that, and how suited to Pharaoh's case. Proverbs 29:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
Job 10:22... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader, pause again to remark the sweet tokens of distinguishing grace: but do not overlook the spiritual sense in the historical. How horrible soever natural darkness when capable of being felt may be, yet what is the spiritual darkness of the soul? See a figurative representation of this in Revela... [ Continue Reading ]
The treaty is again renewed, but all in vain. Pharaoh's heart still retains the same hardness, and the Lord's terms cannot vary.... [ Continue Reading ]
How very precious are those expressions considered spiritually. My Brother! the humblest, the least, the most inconsiderable of God's children must be brought out of spiritual Egypt. Not an hoof shall be left behind. Dearest Jesus! how sweet are these assurances to thy doubting fearful little ones:... [ Continue Reading ]
It should be remembered that this conference did not end until after the determination of the tenth and last plague mentioned in the next chapter. Though we have divided the Chapter s as they at present stand in our Bibles; yet the history itself is not so, as appears by Exodus 11:8. To what a despe... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS There is not a more important reflection to be kept alive in the human mind, than that both the creation and government of the whole world of intellectual and spiritual beings is for the divine glory. The praise ascribed to Jehovah in heaven, corresponds to what all things teach us here... [ Continue Reading ]