Holly Bible - KJV with Concise Commentaries by Z Selam - HTML preview
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together in heaps, so that the smell of them became offensive, Ex 8:14.
Note, The great Sovereign of the world makes what use he pleases of the lives and deaths of his creatures; and he that gives a being, to serve one purpose, may, without wrong to his justice, call for it again immediately, to serve another purpose.
12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried
unto the Lord because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.
13 And the Lord did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs
died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.
14 And they gathered them together upon heaps; and the land stank. 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his
heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had said.
What was the issue of this plague (Ex 8:15): When Pharaoh saw there was a respite, without considering either what he had lately felt or what he had reason to fear, he hardened his heart. Note,
1. Till the heart is renewed by the grace of God, the impressions made by the force of affliction do not abide; the convictions wear off, and the promises that were extorted are forgotten. Till the disposition of the air is changed, what thaws in the sun will freeze again in the shade.
2. God's patience is shamefully abused by impenitent sinners. The respite he gives them, to lead them to repentance, they are hardened by; and while he graciously allows them a truce, in order to the making of their peace, they take that opportunity to rally again the baffled forces of an obstinate infidelity. See Ec 8:11,Ps 78:34, &c.