Thus I will put a division between my people and your people. Tomorrow this sign shall happen.”’”
Those who would do great things for God must rise early and not fear any man's face. Moses stood before proud Pharaoh to demand his captives' release, and God ordered the flies as His obedient army where Pharaoh's will meant nothing.
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Commenting on Exodus 8:20-32
And the Lord did so,.... And this he did immediately of himself without any means; not by the rod of Aaron, to let the Egyptians see that there was nothing in that rod, that it had no magic virtue in it, and what was done by it was from the Lord himself, who could as well inflict plagues without it as with it; see Psa...
Moses met Pharaoh at the Nile's bank to threaten not mere houseflies but divers destructive sorts, gadflies, beetles, cockroaches, creatures the Egyptians themselves worshipped. To be scourged by their own gods, while Goshen escaped untouched, must have humbled them and strengthened Israel's faith.
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Commenting on Exodus 8:20-32