Moses and Aaron again seek Pharaoh, and demand the freedom of
Israel--He requires a miracle--Miracle of Moses' rod--Jambres and
Jannes, the magicians--They convert their rods into serpents--Moses'
serpent destroys theirs--The brothers confront the King at the river's
side--He defies their God--The Nile runs blood--Goshen, the land of
the Hebrews, sparkles with clear water--Jambres again appealed to--The
plague of the frogs--Jambres and Jannes produce, but cannot remove
them--Pharaoh relents, and the plague is stayed--The plague of
lice--Jambres and Jannes disgraced--God speaks to Moses by the well of
Jacob--The plague of flies--Pharaoh again relents--He hardens his
heart, and God sends a pestilence upon the cattle--God again speaks to
Moses beside the well--The plague of boils--Goshen unharmed--God
threatens further vengeance upon Pharaoh--pp. 523-538.
LETTER X.
Moses denounces the plague of thunder and hail against Egypt--Grand
gathering of the storm of God's anger--The storm hangs over Goshen but
harms it not--The purpose of God in these judgments--Terror of
Pharaoh--Agrees to let Israel go--Scene of desolation and
death--Pharaoh seeks to drown his terror in a banquet--In his revels
curses God--Again refuses to let the people go--He vacillates--Orders
Moses and Aaron to be thrust from the palace--The plague of the
locusts--Despair of the Egyptians--Pharaoh acknowledges his sin--The
plague ceases--Character of Pharaoh--The plague of darkness--Description
of the plague--Pharaoh unequal to the combat with God--His rage
against Moses--Moses denounces upon Pharaoh God's last and terrible
judgment--The Egyptians deify him--pp. 539-558.
LETTER XI.
Moses and Aaron call the elders of Israel together--The Passover
Instituted--The Hebrews cease work--They all flock to Goshen--Moses
deified by priests in the temples--Hopefulness of the Hebrews--The
sprinkling--Egyptians seek refuge with the Hebrews--Silence of
expectation--Awful vision of the Angel of the Lord in the Pillar of
Fire--A cry from Egypt--Messengers from Pharaoh to Moses--Amunophis,
the son of Pharaoh, slain by the Angel of the Lord--Egyptians implore
Moses to depart--Israel marshalled--Guided by the Pillar of Fire, the
Hebrew host leave Egypt--The Lamb of God prefigured--Moses explains
the lessons of God's judgments--pp. 559-575.
LETTER XII.
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