John Gill Commentary Exodus 9:16

"but in very deed for this cause have I made thee to stand, to show thee my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth." — Exodus 9:16 (ASV)

And in very deed, for this cause have I raised you up
Or but truly or verily ^F3 ; instead of smiting you with the pestilence, and cutting you off out of the land of the living, "I have raised you up"; made you to stand ^F4 , to continue in being; I have preserved yours from perishing by the former plagues, and have reserved you for greater judgments and sorer punishments.

It may take in all that God did to him; the constitution and appointment of him to all this in his eternal mind; his bringing him into being, and raising him up to kingly dignity; preserving him from perishing by the pestilence, boils and blains, and keeping him for future evils, and all upon this account for the following reasons: for to shew in you my power ; in working miracles, inflicting judgments one after another, and especially in destroying him and his host in the Red sea: and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth ; as it has been more by that last action than by all the rest of the plagues; though, in all, his sovereignty, wisdom, power, patience, longsuffering, and justice, are most visibly displayed and glorified.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F3: (Mlwaw) "veruntamen", Junius & Tremellius, Psicator, Drusius, Fagius; so Ainsworth.
• F4: (Kytdmeh) "stare fecite", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus.