This death only - Pliny calls locusts a pestilence brought on by divine wrath. Pharaoh now recognizes the justice of his servants’ apprehens…

This death. — Compare to Exodus 10:7. The entire destruction of the harvest threatened death to large numbers of the poorer class …

See how he is obliged to come to his knees eventually. He will be up again soon, for his heart is not humbled, though he is eating his own words. A…

Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin, only this once ,
&c.] Pretending that he would never offend any more, and if he di…

God commands Moses to stretch out his hand; locusts came at the call. An army might more easily have been resisted than this host of insects. Who t…