And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve the LORD your God: but who are they that shall go?
Pharaoh recalls Moses not from true repentance but to escape unpopularity by false consent, the tyrant's trick. He fears God's judgment yet bargains as if he can negotiate with the Almighty, restricting the people's departure to a few when God demands all, pretending this satisfies the Lord's righteous claim.
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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.
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Commenting on Exodus 10:1-11
Pharaoh was jealous of losing so great a number of men and the profit their labor brought him. He would consent to worship but retain some as pledges, suspecting they meant to escape his country forever and never return.
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