And the LORD did so. There came great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants’ houses. Throughout all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by the swarms of flies.
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
He and his people not being able to endure this plague of flies any longer; and we read in profane history of such creatures being so troublesome, that people have been obliged to quit their habitations, and seek for new ones; so Pausanias (t) relates of the inhabitants of Myus, that such a number of flies rose out of the lake, that the men were...
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