The contrast of Israel’s deliverance and Egypt’s condemnation is repeated over and over in later ages. The total separation, the antithesis between Israelite and Egyptian is stressed in v. 7 of ch. 11. B. The theological significance. That Egypt’s gods (the animistic worship of idols) ...
These plagues, escalating from blood, frogs, gnats, flies, livestock disease, boils, hail, locusts, darkness , to the final and most severe, the death of the firstborn , demonstrate God's supremacy over nature and the Egyptian gods . Each plague challenges Pharaoh's stubbornness and Egypt'...
the Egyptian magicians did the same things by their secret arts, and Pharaoh’s heart became hard; he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said. Instead, he turned and went into his palace, and did not take even this to heart. And all the Egyptians dug along ...
He's the next link in the hierarchy, the inheritance chain, and the royal line—that's a lot of money and a lot of power to lose. This is no longer just a war between gods, it's also an attempt to mess up the way Egyptian society works. Imagine if half of all legal contracts ...
The plagues are a demonstration of God's power and sovereignty over Egypt, a nation that worshiped many gods. The plagues were not random but targeted Egyptian deities, showing God's supremacy. The mention of "officials and your people" highlights the widespread impact of the plagues, ...
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues — That is, the Latin Church, which pretty well escaped these calamities; yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils — Daimonia, demons, or second mediatory gods, as it hath largely...
On the other hand, disease is not always considered only harmful: thus it may be considered a distinction of the Gods, as was the case of epilepsy in ancient times, or among some historical aboriginal tribes. Nevertheless, the Hippocratic text On the Sacred Disease established the natural ...
Why did not Moses himself smite the dust? Because Moses hid in the dust the body of the Egyptian whom he found smiting a Hebrew, and the dust concealed his action. Therefore were the plagues involving the water and the dust wrought through Aaron. ...