Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
4. Else, if thou refuse. Moses denounces the extreme dearth and famine of the land of Egypt, because the locusts will suddenly arise, altogether to consume the remaining produce of the year; for half of it had already been destroyed by the hail.
God tells me plainly what He means to do: display His power over all creatures and over Satan's kingdom through these plagues, so that what I write will teach the world's end that sin provokes the Lord to jealousy. Pharaoh's refusal to humble himself before God, the God even of despised slaves, is the very sin that justly calls down His judgment on princes.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 10:1-11
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go,.... He threatens him with the following plague, the plague of the locusts, which Pliny (x) calls "denrum irae pestis": behold, tomorrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast; according to Bishop Usher (y) this was about the seventh day of the month Abib, that this plague was threatened, and on the morrow, which was the...