RI ; Why not preſently? Anſw. 1. _— F time they mighr be removed, either by natura! cauſes, or by chance, | faith the LORD, Let m eople 20, that the and ſoheſh 1d not need the favour of Moſes or his God. 2. Becauie ſerve me # YR 9 he thought it an hard and long work ty remove ſo vaſt a numbe nl? REL : LR ' of Frogs, and that Moſes might uſe divers Ceremonies, as the ; _ =! Elſe, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, + Or. 4 - Magicians did, in his addreil:s to God, which would require ſome I will ſend + ſwarmis of flies y upon thee, and upon thy wixeure of conliderable time. : | {errants, and upon thy people, and intothy houſes :; ſome © 11 And rhe frogs ſhall depart from thee, and from |! and the houtes of the Egyptians ſhall be full of ſwarms 4/7 &c, thy houſes, and frem thy ſervants, and from thy peo- | of flies, and alſo the ground whereon they are. ple 3 they (hail remain in the river only. | y H:b @ mixture, of Infe&;or Flies, as appears from Pſal. 18. 45. 12 And Moſes and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, | which were of various kinds, as Bees, Waſps, —_— Hornets, &<c. ©? | infinite in their numbers, and doub- leſs larger, and more venomous and Moſes cryed _ Unto the oleh k, ; —_— and p?rnicious than the commen ones-were 5, 4 of 1 Frogs which he had brought againſt Pha-| 2, And*I will ſeverin that day the land of Goſhen, c_—_ raoh I. . in which my people dwell, that no ſwarms of flies *"- 20 | att ds 3 10: 234:and & Though he was aſſured that the Frogs would depart at his word, | (11 þe there, ro the end that thou mayſt know that 12: r3. yet he would vie the merns appuinred by God for cne accomp iſh- | SENT. : | 3 ment ef it. 1 Or, as the place is fitly rendred by otners, becauſe of I am the LORD in the midſt of the earth &. the word, or matter of, or about the Frogs which he had given, og | * Either 1. of the whole Earth, and conſequently of Egypr, that propounded to Pharach. Becaute he had given his word 'vo0ta for the | I amnot only the Lord of Iſrael, bur of thee and thy Domuint-ns thing and rhe time Fire prayed moreearveſtly, Iſt G24 ſhould | roo. God is here ſpoken of afrer the manner of earthly Princes, be diſhonoured, and Pharavh have occation of triun-ph, The who uſe to r-ſi.le in the midſt of rheir Kingdoms, that they may Hebrew Verbs t© put nd to give, are frequently exchanged, as | More conveniently rule and influence them. Or rather 2 of Goſben, appears by compariag 1 Kings 10. 9. with 2 Chron. 9.8. and 1/a. 42, x, the words being properly thus rendred, that 1 the Lord am in the midſt with Matth. 12. 18. © of that land, to wit, the Land of Goſh» now ſpoken of, to defend . . and preſerveir. For God is ſaid 0 be in the maſt of them whom he 1; And che LOR D did according to the word of prore&s5, Deut..9.21. and 23: 14. Jo. 3. 10. Pſal. 46. 5. and not 6 Moſes : and the frogs died out of che houſes 7m, out of | be in the midſt of others whom he fortakes, and deſigns or threatens the villages. ar:d out of the fields. to deſtroy, Num. 14. 42>Deut. 1. 42. and 31. 17. Compare £xod. 33 3. W m A ſhort Speech, for they died, and were removed on# of, &c. with 34. 9. ? CE | | as appears from the next Verſe. Ir being frequent in the Hebrew 23 And I will put T a diviſion a between my people, f Heb! 6: | Tougue-under one Verb exp: <fſed, ro underſtand anorher agreeable and thy people * to morrow [hall this ſign be 6b. — to it. See Examples in the Hebrew, Gen. 43. 33, 34. £xod, 18. 12 a Heb. a r:demption or d:liverance, i.e. a token or mean of delive. pl and 25. 2. Prov 25. 22. rance, by a Meronimy ; a wall of partition, by which I will preſerve TER 14 And they zathered them together upon heaps », | the razhzes, whillt I deſtroy the Ezyp:ians. b This be faith, partly y and the land ftank. ro gain rhe more belief ro himſelf in what he now did or ſhould. n Which doubrieſs they caſt into their Rivers, or Pits. ec. further ſpeak in God's Name to them 3 and partly to warn them of though that be not here mentioned. God wou'd nor inſtantly and their danger, and make their difobecience more Ineatoulages en wholly take them away, both to convince taem of rhetiuch of the 24. And the LORD did {o c: and *® there came a — St Miracle, and to make them more ſenſivie of this judgment, and | grievous {warm of tlies d into the houſe of Pharaoh, Wiid: more fearful of bringing another vpon themſelves. and into his ſervants houſes, and into all the land-of Platt :/ ” 15 But when Pharaoh ſaw that there. was reſpite, Egypt; the land e was ÞF corrupted by reaſon of the cs: 31e Chap: * he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unro them, | ſwarm of flies. 7-1. = 1M as the LORD had ſaid. c Immediatly by his own Word, and not by Myſes his Rod, leſt deſtroyed. the Egyptians ſhould think ir was a Magician's Wand, and thar all
; 16 And the LORD ſaid unto Moſes, Say unto Aaron s, Stretch out thy rod, and ſmite the duſt of the land, that it may become lice p throughout all cae land of Egypr. |
ſe)f in the very laſt plague ro be Loch perfiaious 3nd incorrigible. Others think, he was forewarned, though har be not here expreſled, Þ So the Hebrew word 1s rendred by ail the Jew:jb, and molt other Interpreters, Burt it is probable, that wir is taid of the Locuſts,
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The Frogs did not only invade their Houſes, bur
o God, it ſeems, gave him no warning, becauſe he ſhewed him- |
ODUS, Chap. VIlt. Exo2. to, 14. Was trite of theſe, that they were mnch more loath- ſomeand troubleſome than ordinary,
17 And they did fo : for Aaron ſtretched out his hand with his rod, and ſmote the duſt 4 of the earth, and it became lice, in man and in beaſt : all the duſt of the land * became lice, throughout all the land of Egypt. |
4 Which was not fit matter to produce Lic?,and therefore ſhews this work to be divine and miraculous: *i.e. A great part of 1t, the word al being commonly ſo underſtocd in Scriprure:
13 And the Magicians did fo r with their inchant- ments to bring forth lics, but they could not 5s: ſo