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The Plague of Flies
20 And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning,
and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say
unto him, thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
How it was threatened, like that of frogs, before it was inflicted. Moses is directed (Ex 8:20) to rise early in the morning, to meet Pharaoh when he came forth to the water, and there to repeat his demands. Note,
1. Those that would bring great things to pass for God and their generation must rise early, and redeem time in the morning. Pharaoh was early up at his superstitious devotions to the river; and shall we be for more sleep and more slumber when any service is to be done which would pass well in our account in the great day?
2. Those that would approve themselves God's faithful servants must not be afraid of the face of man. Moses must stand before Pharaoh, proud as he was, and tell him that which was in the highest degree humbling, must challenge him (if he refused to release his captives) to engage with any army of flies, which would obey God's orders of Pharaoh would not. See a similar threatening, Isa 7:18, The Lord will hiss (or whistle) for the fly and the bee, to come and serve his purposes.
21 Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms
of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.
22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people
dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.
How the Egyptians and the Hebrews were to be remarkably distinguished in this plague, Ex 8:22, 23. It is probable that this distinction had not been so manifest and observable in