Éxodo 8:19

Listen to Éxodo 8:19
19 芦隆Es el dedo de Dios!禄, exclamaron los magos ante el fara贸n. Pero el coraz贸n del fara贸n sigui贸 endurecido y no quiso escucharlos, tal como el Se帽or
hab铆a dicho.

Éxodo 8:19 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 8:19

Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, this is the finger of
God
This is to be ascribed to a power superior to human, to a divine power; so long as they could do something similar, or impose upon the senses of men, and make them believe they did the like, they would not acknowledge divine omnipotence; but when they no longer could deceive the sight of Pharaoh and the Egyptian, then they own the effects of a superior power: and this they did partly to detract from the power of Moses and Aaron, because they would not have them pass for more skilful persons in the magic art than themselves; and therefore suggest, that this was done not by virtue of any human skill and art, but by the power of the Supreme Being; and partly to detract from the honour of the God of Israel; for they do not say this is the finger of Jehovah, whom they accounted, as Dr. Lightfoot F7 observes, as a petty trivial god, but this is the finger of Elohim, the Supreme Deity. It is conjectured by some F8, that in memory of this plague the Egyptian priests scrape their whole bodies, lest there should be a louse or any unclean thing on them when they worship their gods, as Herodotus F9 relates:

and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them;
either not unto the magicians owning the hand of God, and his divine power in the plague inflicted; or to Moses and Aaron demanding the dismission of the people of Israel, which latter seems to be confirmed by the usual phrase, as follows,

as the Lord had said;
see ( Exodus 7:4 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F7 Ut supra. (Works, vol. 1. p. 705, 706.)
F8 Vid. Scheuchzer. Physica Sacra, vol. 1. p. 132.
F9 Euterpe, sive, l. 2. c. 37.
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Éxodo 8:19 In-Context

17 Entonces Mois茅s y Aar贸n hicieron tal como el Se帽or
les orden贸. Cuando Aar贸n extendi贸 la mano y golpe贸 el suelo con su vara, los mosquitos infestaron todo el territorio y tanto los egipcios como sus animales quedaron cubiertos de ellos. Todo el polvo de la tierra de Egipto se convirti贸 en mosquitos.
18 Los magos del fara贸n intentaron hacer lo mismo mediante sus artes ocultas, pero esta vez no pudieron. Y los mosquitos estaban sobre todos: gente y animales por igual.
19 芦隆Es el dedo de Dios!禄, exclamaron los magos ante el fara贸n. Pero el coraz贸n del fara贸n sigui贸 endurecido y no quiso escucharlos, tal como el Se帽or
hab铆a dicho.
20 Plaga de moscas
Luego el Se帽or
le dijo a Mois茅s: 芦Ma帽ana, lev谩ntate temprano y p谩rate delante del fara贸n cuando baje al r铆o y dile: 鈥淓sto dice el Se帽or
: 鈥楧eja ir a mi pueblo para que me adore.
21 Si te niegas, enviar茅 enjambres de moscas sobre ti, tus funcionarios, tu gente y todas las casas. Los hogares egipcios se llenar谩n de moscas, y el suelo quedar谩 cubierto de ellas.
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