1._And the Lord said unto Moses. _(131) He now relates that it was not
with self-conceived confidence that he was lately so elated, as we
have seen him; (132) but because he had been forewarned by divine
revelation that the end of the contests was now near, and that nothing
now remained but. that Ph... [ Continue Reading ]
2._Speak now in the ears of the people. _He repeats His command as to
spoiling the Egyptians, of which mention was made in the third
chapter, for it was not enough for God to rescue His people from that
cruel tyranny under which their wretched lives were scarcely
protracted in great poverty and dist... [ Continue Reading ]
3._And the Lord gave _(135) _the people favor. _Because the Israelites
never could have hoped that the Egyptians, who had before rapaciously
stripped them of everything, would become so kind and liberal to them,
Moses declares that men’s hearts are turned this way or that by God.
For, as the Psalm t... [ Continue Reading ]
4._And Moses said, Thus saith the Lord. _I lately said that Moses did
not go from Pharaoh’s presence until he had delivered the message of
his final destruction. This denunciation is, therefore, connected with
the foregoing passage. Whence it appears how courageously Moses
sustained the menaces of t... [ Continue Reading ]
8._And all these thy servants shall come down. _Thus far Moses had
reported the words of God; he now begins to speak in his own person,
and announces that, by Pharaoh’s command, messengers would come from
his court, who would voluntarily and humbly crave for what he had
refused respecting the dismis... [ Continue Reading ]
9._And the Lord said unto Moses. _This seems to be a representation of
the reason why Moses was so angry; viz., because he had been
forewarned that he had to do with a lost and desperate man. When,
therefore, after so many contests, he sees the dominion of God
despised by the audacity and madness of... [ Continue Reading ]