The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.’”
God chose contemptible frogs to strike down a haughty king, magnifying His power over all creation and humbling Pharaoh's pride. What a mortification for a monarch to be forced to his knees by creatures a child can master, yet whose numbers made all his chariots and horsemen helpless.
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Commenting on Exodus 8:1-15
And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy servants. No doubt by the interposition of divine power and providence, and it may be by the ministry of angels; so that let them use what care, caution, and diligence they would, there was no keeping them out; but they came upon all the people of the land, high...
These small Nile frogs would naturally breed in thousands when the waters recede, but this became a penal miracle when they emerged in unparalleled numbers at Aaron's staff and penetrated not only houses and beds and ovens and kneading-troughs, but crept upon the men themselves.
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Commenting on Exodus 8:1-6