Éxodo 9:16

16 'Pero en verdad, por esta razón te he permitido permanecer: para mostrarte mi poder y para proclamar mi nombre por toda la tierra.

Éxodo 9:16 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 9:16

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

Éxodo 9:16 In-Context

14 'Porque esta vez enviaré todas mis plagas sobre ti, sobre tus siervos y sobre tu pueblo, para que sepas que no hay otro como yo en toda la tierra.

15 'Porque si yo hubiera extendido mi mano y te hubiera herido a ti y a tu pueblo con pestilencia, ya habrías sido cortado de la tierra.

16 'Pero en verdad, por esta razón te he permitido permanecer: para mostrarte mi poder y para proclamar mi nombre por toda la tierra.

17 'Y todavía te enalteces contra mi pueblo no dejándolos ir.

18 'He aquí, mañana como a esta hora, enviaré granizo muy pesado, tal como no ha habido en Egipto desde el día en que fue fundado hasta ahora.