Esodo 9:16

16 Ma pur perciò ti ho costituito, acciocchè in te si vegga la mia potenza, e che il mio Nome sia predicato per tutta la terra.

Esodo 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.

Esodo 9:16 In-Context

14 Perciocchè questa volta io manderò tutte le mie piaghe nel tuo cuore, e sopra i tuoi servitori, e sopra il tuo popolo; acciocchè tu conosca che non vi è alcuno pari a me in tutta la terra.

15 Conciossiachè, se io avessi stesa la mano, potrei aver percosso te e il tuo popolo, con la mortalità; e tu saresti stato sterminato d’in su la terra.

16 Ma pur perciò ti ho costituito, acciocchè in te si vegga la mia potenza, e che il mio Nome sia predicato per tutta la terra.

17 Ancora t’innalzi contro al mio popolo, per non lasciarlo andare?

18 Ecco, domani, intorno a quest’ora, io farò piovere una gravissima gragnuola, la cui simile non fu giammai in Egitto, dal giorno che fu fondato, fino ad ora.