Let me speak of Pharaoh by way of observation, and I will begin by remarking thatIN SORE TROUBLE THE SERVANTS OF THE LORD ARE GREATLY VALUED. His arrows can pierce through a sevenfold harness of steel no man is so encompassed as to be beyond the reach of the Almighty. The strong and healthy man, he can soon place among the invalids, and make him cry, "Give me some drink, Titinius, like a sick girl." Your children are about you to-dayyour joy and pridebut he can make you childless in an hour.
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He knows how to reach the rich, and make them sit by the wayside, like Belisarius, begging for an obolus. The Lord has sure ways of reaching the hearts of proud men, and if he does not use frogs to-day he can use other means, for he has servants everywhere prepared for each emergency.
Is it not a just way of dealing with him? As the true God is everywhere present around us, in our bed-chambers and in our streets, so shall Pharaoh find every place filled with what he chooses to call divine. These be thy gods, O Egypt! Thou shalt have enough of them! Pharaoh himself shall pay a new reverence to these reptiles. Images of a certain frog-headed goddess were placed in the catacombs, and frogs themselves were preserved with sacred honors. There was a suitableness in God's choosing the frogs to humble Egypt's king, because frogs were worshipped by that nation as emblems of the Deity. The Lord seemed by this to say, "Who are you that I should do great things to conquer you? I will even vanquish you by frogs." He could neither sleep nor eat, nor walk abroad, without encountering the loathsome reptiles. From every reservoir and marsh they marched up in countless hordes, entering into his chamber and coming upon his bed and his kneading-trough. I grant you that the conflict was still sublime in the truest sense but in Pharaoh's estimation the croaking frogs which came up from all the banks of Nilus were a mean sort of adversaries. This time the Lord will deal with him in another style. The Lord began with the proud monarch by turning the waters into blood but it may be that Pharaoh said in his heart, "What a great man I am! If Jehovah comes forth against me, he must needs work a terrible miracle in order to conquer." He goes his way to his house un-humbled.
Strange! Singular! One would have thought that such despicable means would never have been used. In the case before us Jehovah has to deal with Pharaoh, and he humbles him by frogs. If thou wouldst war against him it would be well for thee to know what his forces are: consider the battle do no more. Know ye not that the beasts of the field are his servants, and the stones of the street obey his bidding? Every wave worships him, and every wind knows its Lord. When the Lord contends against proud men he has but to lift his finger and countless legions throng around him, all loyal to their Lord and valiant for his name. The dust of the earth, out of which man is formed, will at God's command forget its kinship, and overwhelm a caravan, while the waters will forsake their channels, invade the tops of the mountains and drown a rebellions race. In the armory of God there are weapons of every kind, from the stars in their courses down to caterpillars in their hosts. HEN IT PLEASES GOD by his judgments to humble men he is never at a loss for means: he can use lions or lice, famines or flies.
"Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the Lord, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD."≾xodus 8:8.
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