John Gill's Exposition on Exodus 14:12

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, etc.] The thing they suggested to him, and talked with him about while they were in the land of Egypt, before they came out of it, particularly after their service and bondage were made more severe and cruel upon Moses and Aaron’s demanding their dismission, (see <020521>Exodus 5:21 6:9): saying, let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? peaceably and quietly, as we have been used to do, since there is no likelihood of being freed, and since we are more evilly treated than before: for it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness: of such mean spirits were they, and had so poor a notion of, and taste for liberty, and so ungrateful were they to their deliverer.

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