CONTENTS
Moses the minister of God is represented in this Chapter, as
prosecuting his great commission in the chastisement of the King of
Egypt and his servants, for the deliverance of Israel from bondage.
Under the command and by the authority of God, Moses calls for three
successive plagues, in t... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 107:40; Psalms 7:1... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 78:45; Revelation 16:13... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! remark with me, how the Lord sometimes, for the greater
display of the sovereignty of his power, permits evil men to proceed
to surprising lengths. Is not this what Paul alludes to? 2 Timothy
3:8. Read that scripture also: Job 12:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
See another memorable instance of the state of a distracted
conscience. Acts 24:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
This reference to the time when the plague should be removed at
Pharaoh's own appointment, prevented the possibility of having it
supposed that it was the effect of human contrivance, and made it a
more full demonstration of a divine power. Deuteronomy 32:35.... [ Continue Reading ]
Joel 2:20... [ Continue Reading ]
Pause, Reader, over this verse, and observe in it an awful testimony
to the great leading truths of scripture. Until grace enters the
heart, no corrections, though ever so great, ever so heavy, ever so
multiplied, will reach the soul. See that scripture: Psalms 78:31.
Gracious God! sanctify thy affl... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 105:31. Reader! remark with me, what small and apparently
contemptible instruments the Lord works with. He might have
commissioned beasts of prey, or sent scorpions among them: but he
chooses, as in the gospel dispensation, weak things to confound the
mighty.... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 11:14... [ Continue Reading ]
Let the Reader consult what was said on the 7th Verse, and now behold
the Lord's design in the permission. Gracious God! how dost thou
compel thy very enemies to acknowledge thy sovereignty? Reader! shall
not you and I? See Psalms 64:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe! how the Lord warns again and again, before he repeats his
punishments.... [ Continue Reading ]
The plague of flies was a striking display of divine sovereignty. For
as Beelzebub, the god of flies, so called, was probably one of the
idols of Egypt, nothing could be more admirably suited to show the
Lord's displeasure, than by punishing them in the very objects of
their own idolatry.... [ Continue Reading ]
How sweet to observe the tokens of distinguishing grace! See that
scripture, Malachi 3:17. Hence from this conviction David sung, Psalms
27:5. And what will be the final discrimination of the righteous from
the wicked? See the words of the Lord Jesus on that point: Matthew
25:31.... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 78:45... [ Continue Reading ]
Sacrifice to the Lord requires a previous abstraction from men. 2
Corinthians 6:17; Hosea 2:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe, the Lord will not abate in his demand: see Exodus 3:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe, how Pharaoh seems to relax: see Exodus 5:2. So said Simon
Magus. Acts 8:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! admire with me the loveliness of Moses' character. See his
boldness in the service of his God, undaunted by Pharaoh's presence or
anger. Behold his charity in desiring Pharaoh to deal no more
deceitfully. Remark that charity displaying itself, in entreating the
Lord for the removal of the pl... [ Continue Reading ]
James 5:16. But in this scripture and every other of the like kind,
keep in view Him, and his precious office as our intercessor, in whose
blood and righteousness alone Moses, Daniel or Job, found favour with
God.... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! in the awful character of Pharaoh, behold the dreadful history
of every hardened transgressor; for in all instances, more or less, it
is the same. The afflictions which tend not by divine grace to soften
the heart, will tend without grace to harden. And the man that is not
made better by cor... [ Continue Reading ]