Moses said to Pharaoh, “Be pleased to command me when I am to plead for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be cut off from you and your houses and be left only in the Nile.”
Moses offers Pharaoh something he craves: the chance to set the time for deliverance. But this is no honor, it strips away the false glory Pharaoh built on his own power and magic, leaving him with only one refuge: God's mercy through an intercessor. His arrogance must be crushed utterly.
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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
Pharaoh delays until tomorrow, likely hoping the plague will lift itself so he owes nothing to the Lord or Moses. But Moses has him appoint the hour, so when it ends precisely at that moment, Pharaoh will know: no god he worships, no magician he employs, can match the Lord's power to send and remove at will.
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