Exodus 12:29-30 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt… Is this a dreadful picture? Yet it is but a type of what must be — a shadow merely of the wrath to come to all the unsprinkled souls' tenements in eternity. Ye that affect to think so lightly of death and eternity! see here this shadow and gather the elementary ideas of what shall be, from what has been already, under the government of God. Standing, in imagination, amid these complicated horrors in Egypt — the groans of the dying, mingling with the shrieks of the living, throughout a whole empire — all earthly pomp and power levelled to mingle its unavailing cries with the lowest and meanest in a common woe, — here see what it is for God to "whet His glittering sword and His hand to take hold on vengeance." (S. Robinson, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. |
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