The LORD said to Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely.
1. And the Lord said unto Moses. See Lat., Dixerat autem. He now relates that it was not with self-conceived confidence that he was lately so elated, as we have seen him; “Tellement que sa confiance le fait parler haut;” as to be led by his confidence to use such high language. — Fr.
Here is, I. The high favour Moses and Israel were in with God. 1. Moses was a favourite of Heaven, for God will not hide from him the thing he will do. God not only makes him his messenger to deliver his errands, but communicates to him his purpose (as the man of his counsel) that he would bring one plague more, and but one...
Commenting on Exodus 11:1-3
And the Lord said unto Moses,.... While in the presence of Pharaoh, by a secret impulse upon his mind; or he had said (m), which some refer as far back as to his appearance to him in Midian, Exo 4:23, which is too remote; rather it refers to the last time he went to Pharaoh, being sent for by him; and the words may be...