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The LORD spoke to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what the LORD says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me. See also: Exodus 3:18Exodus 3:12Exodus 5:1If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs. See also: Exodus 7:14Psalms 78:45Exodus 9:2The river will swarm with frogs, which will go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs. See also: Psalms 105:30Exodus 12:34The frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.”’” See also: Isaiah 23:9Isaiah 19:22Acts 12:22-23The LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’” See also: Exodus 7:19Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. See also: Psalms 105:30Psalms 78:45Leviticus 11:12The magicians did the same thing with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt. See also: Exodus 7:11Exodus 7:22Deuteronomy 13:1-3Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, “Entreat the LORD, that he take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to the LORD.” See also: Exodus 10:17Exodus 9:28Exodus 8:25-28Moses said to Pharaoh, “I give you the honor of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in the river only.” See also: Isaiah 10:15Judges 7:21 Kings 18:25Pharaoh said, “Tomorrow.” Moses said, “Let it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God. See also: 2 Samuel 7:22Isaiah 46:9Psalms 86:8The frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people. They shall remain in the river only.” See also: Exodus 8:9Exodus 8:3Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the LORD concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh. See also: James 5:16-18Exodus 9:33Exodus 8:30The LORD did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields. See also: Deuteronomy 34:10-12They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank. See also: Joel 2:20Exodus 8:24Isaiah 34:2But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as the LORD had spoken. See also: Isaiah 26:10Ecclesiastes 8:11Hebrews 3:15The LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.’” See also: Exodus 8:5Exodus 8:17They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt. See also: Psalms 105:31Isaiah 23:9Acts 12:23The magicians tried with their enchantments to produce lice, but they couldn’t. There were lice on man, and on animal. See also: Exodus 7:11Exodus 9:11Daniel 5:8Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is God’s finger;” but Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as the LORD had spoken. See also: Luke 11:20Psalms 8:3Exodus 7:5The LORD said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes out to the water; and tell him, ‘This is what the LORD says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me. See also: Exodus 7:15Exodus 9:13Exodus 8:1Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground they are on. See also: Psalms 105:31Isaiah 7:18Psalms 78:45I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, to the end you may know that I am the LORD on the earth. See also: Exodus 9:4Malachi 3:18Exodus 10:23I will put a division between my people and your people. This sign shall happen by tomorrow.”’” The LORD did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses. In all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies. See also: Psalms 78:45Psalms 105:31Exodus 8:21Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!” See also: Exodus 8:8Exodus 9:27Exodus 12:31Moses said, “It isn’t appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God. Behold, if we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, won’t they stone us? See also: Genesis 43:32Genesis 46:34Exodus 3:18We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.” See also: Exodus 3:18Exodus 3:12Exodus 5:1Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me.” See also: Exodus 8:8Exodus 9:281 Kings 13:6Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you. I will pray to the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don’t let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.” See also: Exodus 8:15Exodus 8:8Jeremiah 42:20-21Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to the LORD. See also: Exodus 8:12James 5:16Exodus 9:33The LORD did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. There remained not one. Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go. See also: Exodus 8:15Exodus 4:21Romans 2:5
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Exodus 8:3
Ver. 3. Frogs, not by a new creation; but the spawn was miraculously brought to maturity. C. ---
Angels, or a divine instinct, brought them to infest all places; and thus they became a more grievous plague than that of blood. M.
↑ 3Exodus 8:4
Ver. 4. Servants. The Abderites and Dardanians were formerly obliged to abandon their country by such a plague. Orosius iii. 23. Plin. viii. 29. C. --- Here the Samaritan copy adds, that Moses delivered this message to Pharao. H.
↑ 4Exodus 8:7
Ver. 7. Frogs, few in number, and brought by the ministry of devils. M.
↑ 7Exodus 8:8
Ver. 8. Pray ye to the Lord, &c. By this it appears, that though the magicians, by the help of the devil, could bring frogs, yet they could not take these away: God being pleased to abridge in this the power of Satan. So we see they could not afterwards produce the lesser insects; and in this restraint of the power of the devil, were forced to acknowledge the finger of God.
↑ 8Exodus 8:9
Ver. 9. A time. Moses thus prevents the king from attributing their departure to natural causes.
Pharao was perhaps inclined to suspect this would be the case, and therefore had a mind to wait till the morrow. M.
↑ 9Exodus 8:14
Ver. 14. Corrupted. This helped to produce the ensuing plague of flies, &c. C.
--- The Egyptians might then recollect the putrid carcasses of the children, whom they had drowned. H.
↑ 14Exodus 8:15
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 15. Pharao hardened his own heart. By this we see that Pharao was himself the efficient cause of his heart being hardened, and not God. See the same repeated in ver. 32. Pharao hardened his heart at this time also; likewise chap. ix. 7. 35, and chap. xiii. 15. Ch. --- This is the constant doctrine of the holy fathers. S. Aug. ser. 88. de temp. q. 18. 28. 36. S. Basil, orat. "that god is not the author of evil." S. Chrys. hom. 67. in Jo. &c. Hence Origen, periar. 3.
says, "The Scripture sheweth manifestly that Pharao was hardened by his own will; for God said to him, thou wouldst not: if thou wilt not dismiss Israel."
Even the priests of the Philistines were so well convinced of this, that they said, (1 K. vi. 6,) Why do you harden your hearts? God therefore hardened them only by not absolutely hindering their wickedness, and by punishing them with less severity, as they did not deserve to be corrected like dear children, Hebrews xii. --- Perdition is from thyself. Ose. xii. 9. Thus God cast Pharao into the sea, by permitting, not by forcing, him to enter. Ex. xv. 4. How shocking must then the blasphemous doctrine of Zuinglius, (ser. de provid. 5,) Calvin, (Instit. 8. 17,) &c. appear, who attribute every wicked deed to God, though they pretend at the same time that he is not unjust, even when he commands and impels a man to commit murder or adultery! Idem facinus puta adulterium...quantum Dei est auctoris, motoris, impulsoris opus est, crimen non est; quantum hominis est, crimen ac scelus est. Zuing. sup. The light of reason may suffice to confute such absurdity. W.
↑ 15Exodus 8:16
Ver. 16. Sciniphs, or Cinifs, Hebrew Cinnim, small flying insects, very troublesome both to men and beasts. Ch. --- Like midges. Origen, hom. 4.
Others think they were lice. Bochart. Pharao is not forewarned of this plague.
↑ 16Exodus 8:18
Ver. 18. Practiced, fecerunt; the same expression as v. 7: whence some argue, that the former were delusions, not real changes. H. --- God was pleased to shew here the vanity of their attempts, and the imbecility of the devil, who could not even bring a single animalcule or insect, though he had before appeared to work great wonders. T.
↑ 18Exodus 8:19
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 19. Finger, the spirit, (Lu. xi. 20. comp. Matt. xii. 28,) or power of God. Is. xl.
12. The magicians here confess, that Moses is something more than themselves. C. --- Thus God interferes, whenever a contest of miracles, real or apparent, might lead any sincere seeker astray.
He caused the priests of Baal to be confounded; (3 K. xix,) and Simon Magus, flying in the air, was hurled down at the prayer of S. Peter. Hegesip. Cyrola, the Arian patriarch, attempting to deceive the people, by giving sight to a man whom he bribed to feign himself blind; and Calvin, who wished to have the honour of raising a man to life, at Geneva, by the like imposition, were both deservedly covered with confusion; while, of those unhappy men who joined in the collusion, one lost his sight, and the other his life. Greg. of Tours ii. Hist.
3. Bolsec. On such occasions, we are admonished to be on our guard, and to adhere to the old religion. Deut. xiii.
Matt. xxiv. W. --- The magicians, though fully convinced, were not still converted.
↑ 19Exodus 8:21
Ver. 21. Flies. Heb. earob. Sept. "dog-flies." Some include under this plague all sorts of wild beasts. Josep. ii. 13. Wisd. xi. 9. 16. 18. Insects are very troublesome, and the pagans honoured Jupiter with the title of Apomuios, because he delivered them from flies. Beelzebub, "the god-fly," got his name for the same reason. 4 K. i. 1. C.
↑ 21Exodus 8:22
Ver. 22. Gessen, where the Hebrews dwelt. The Egyptians who lived among them would not, however, escape this plague.
↑ 22Exodus 8:23
Ver. 23. Be. Here again the Sam. copy observes, that Moses told this to Pharao.
H.
↑ 23Exodus 8:24
Ver. 24. The Lord, without the intervention of the rod, lest any inherent power might be supposed to rest in it. M. --- Corrupted, ravaged; men and beasts being destroyed by their bite or sting. Ps.
lxxvii. 45. Wisd. xvi. 9.
↑ 24Exodus 8:26
Ver. 26. The abominations, &c. That is, the things they worship for gods: oxen, rams, &c. It is the usual style of the Scriptures to call all idols and false gods, abominations; to signify how much the people of God ought to detest and abhor them. Ch. --- The Egyptians adored the stars, and even the vilest creatures, on account of some advantage which they derived from them.
Cicero, N. Deor. i. They sometimes sacrificed animals; though, at first, "they offered only prayer and incense." Macrob. Satur. i. 7. Gen. xliii. 16. Their belief in the transmigration of souls, perhaps, induced them to abstain from the immolation of beasts. C.
↑ 26Exodus 8:32
Ver. 32. Hardened. Heb. and Sept. "Pharao hardened his heart for this time also." M.
↑ 32License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses