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.