CONTENTS The Lord having now by his grace over-ruled all the objections of Moses, the man of God with Aaron his brother proceeds without further delay in the execution of their commission. This Chapter relates to us the event of Moses' second embassy unto Pharaoh. Moses demands, in the Lord's name,... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 28:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
See the observations on Exodus 4:21. See Exodus 7:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
Romans 9:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 105:26... [ Continue Reading ]
Exodus 14:25... [ Continue Reading ]
Our dear Redeemer was but about 30 years of age when he entered upon his ministry, Luke 4:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
It is remarkable that upon several occasions in scripture, for the confirmation of the faith and the confutation of error, the serpent is made use of, see Numbers 21:8. And it is yet more remarkable that this is expressly spoken of by the Redeemer himself as typical of his salvation. John 3:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Reader for the proper apprehension of this and the following verse, would do well to consider that God sometimes in his providence permits events, which are not within the power or the province of the human mind to account for: whether the magicians did actually do what is here said, or whether... [ Continue Reading ]
Exodus 4:21; Zechariah 7:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
This is the first of the ten plagues with which the Lord visited Egypt: and a most awful one it was. I would just make one observation upon it; namely, that it is remarkable, that as the first punishment for the deliverance of the Lord's people, which Moses wrought, was the converting water into blo... [ Continue Reading ]
Numbers 11:5; Psalms 105:29; Revelation 16:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Timothy 3:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 5:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
As the Israelites had been compelled by Pharaoh to seek straw where there was none, so the Egyptians are now punished in seeking water where there was none.... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS Pause my soul over the perusal of this Chapter, and behold, in the history of the Egyptian monarch, the awful state of an hardened heart. And what were the calls of his magicians to counteract the sovereignty of God, but similar instances of the obduracy of the wicked in all ages, who a... [ Continue Reading ]