Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
16. Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste. This haste arose from anxiety and fear, because it was a time of extremity, and the enormity of the evil admitted no delay. By this vehemence, then, Pharaoh betrays his distress, when he not only willingly is inclined to recall Moses, whom he had lately driven out, but does so in such haste.
A swarm obedient to God's word, locusts at a call, an army more fearsome than horse and foot. Yet mark what follows: when God pleases, He can strip bare what He has given, force men from their possessions, and bid contemptible insects plunder the bread from their mouths. Labor not for what locusts devour, but for meat that endures to eternal life.
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Commenting on Exodus 10:12-20
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste,.... Or, "hastened to call them" (t); sent messengers in all haste to fetch them, and desire them to come as soon as possible to him. Thus he who a few hours ago drove them from his presence, in a hurry, sends for them to come to him with all speed, which the present circumstances he was...