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f Which here noteseither r. The corruption of their natures, which was perpetually inclining them to ſin and conſequently ex- poling them ro God's wrath, which muſt needs have conſumed them utterly and ſpeedily,if God had letlooſe his anger upon them. Sce the ſame argument uſed to.a like purpoſe, Gen. 8. 21+ Or ra- ther, 2. The frailty or infirmity of their natures, as the next claule interpretsthis; which 1s ſuch, hat ifT ſhould not reſtrain my wrath, I ſhould quickly cut off the body of this wicked people, and their children with them, whomT have promiſed to carry into Ca7a97, Numb. 14. 31. g Thatare quickly cut off, and when once they - are dead they never return to this life, —_ f| Or, 7421 © 40How oft did they || provoke him in the wilderneſs, againſt him and grieve him in the deſert ?
*Nu34.22 7 Yea, * they turned back and tempted God, and
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h They limited either 1. God's power, 2s above, Perſe 19, 20. Or, 2. God's will, dire&ing and preſcribing to him what to do, and when, and in what manner, and murmuring at him if he did not always grant their particular and various deſires.
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[| Or, from when he delivered them || from the enemy. affi. 3:01. ; The great and glorious works of his hand on their behalf. k Nor that remarkable and never to be forgotten day, that ſe!f ſame day, as it is called Exod. 12. 41- which God had fixed four hundred years before, Gen. 15. 13- 1n which God delivered them from their greateſ} enemy, the tyrant Pharaoh = |
43 How he had + wrought his ſigns in Egypt, and. his wonders in the field of Zoan.
44 * And had turned their rivers / into blood ; and
their floods that they could not drink.
1 The ſeveral branches and ſfireams of the river N:us, and thoſe many rivulets which they brought from it. ; «Ex-8.24. 45 He ſent divers ſorts of flies among them, which de- * Ex.8. 6. Voured them m.; and * frogs, which deſtroyed them.
m Or, d:ftroy:d them ; which they_might-do by their cruel ard numerous {tings,for theſe flies were doubtleſs extraordinary in their nature and quaitity, and poyſonous and hurtful qualities. And the like is to be. tought concerning the frogs here following, v ho alſo might deſtroy the people by infeting the air with their ſtink, and corrupting their meats and drinks. |
45 He gave alſo their increale unto the caterpillar, *Ex.10.13* and their jabour » * unto the locuſt, -
» The herbs and grains which were come up by their care and diligent labour. 7 : : ; ""R 47 * He | deſtroyed their vines with hail, and their Fir ” ſycomore-trees 0 with || froſt. k;ltod. o Or, wild Fig-trees, which were there in great plenty» Under | Or. great theſe and the vines all other rrees are comprehended. And this hail-fones, hail and froſt did deſtroy the fruits of the trees, and ſometimes the trees themſelves. ; :
+ Heb He 48 + He gave upp alfo their cattel to the hail, and ſhur p
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li Or,light-, » Heb. He ſbut up as ina priſon that they could not eſcape __ them. :
49 He caſt upon them the fierceneſs of his anger,
wrath, and indignation q and trouble, by ſendingyevil
angeis among ibern r. | 9 Orher moſt giievous plagues which were mixed with, and were the effects of his anger and wrath ; whereby their miſcries were greatiy aggravated and diſtinguiſhed trom the affliftions which God ſent upon the 7ſr2elites in Egypt, which were only fatherly cha- Rilements and the effefts of God's love and occaſions of their deli- VErance 7 Heb. the ſending ( or the operation or effeQs ) of evil As gels, or of the Angels or meſſengers of evil things, either of the Angels whom God imployed in producing theſe plagues ; or of AMeſes and A2ron : who were to the Egyptians meſlengers of evil,and by whom \ theſe judgments were ſent to and inflited upon them. o + He made a way /to his anger, he ſpared not their foul from death 7 bat gave || their life # over to the
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weighing out their plagues proportionably to their ſins, and exer- ciſing great ſeverity towards them anſwerably ro their great and barbarous cruelty towards his people. # i. e, He puniſheth them with death or killing plagues, as the next words explain it. « Or their beaſts. So he ſpeaks of the murrain among their cattel. Bur our Tranſlation ſzems better to agree with the next foregoing and following paſſages which plainly ſpeak of the death of per- ſons.