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but indeed for this cause I have made you stand, to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
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Preserved for a Purpose
Commentators explain that the phrase "have I made thee to stand" (or "raised you up") means God deliberately kept Pharaoh alive and in power. Instead of destroying him with an earlier plague, God preserved him for a specific purpose, using his continued defiance as a stage for a greater demonstration of divine power.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
With the plague of hail begins the last series of plagues, which differ from the former both in their severity and their effects. Each produced a t…
19th Century
Anglican
Indeed, for this purpose have I raised you up. —Rather, but truly on this account have I made you stand…
16th Century
Protestant
And indeed for this reason I have raised you up. The word, העמדתי, hagnemadthi, is variously explained; it properly signifies “to…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And in very deed, for this cause have I raised you up Or but truly or verily F3 ; instead of smiting you …
Moses is here ordered to deliver a dreadful message to Pharaoh. Providence ordained that Moses should have a man of such a fierce and stubborn spir…
