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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 105:28
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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He sent darkness, and made it dark, etc.] The land of Egypt; either he, God, or it, darkness, made it dark, or it was made dark; the Targum is, “made them dark;” that is, the Egyptians; darkness was a messenger of the Lord’s, who forms the light and creates darkness; it came at his word and covered all the land, excepting the dwellings of Israel; even a thick darkness that might be felt, so that the Egyptians could not see one another, nor rise from their place for three days together; such as sometimes rises at sea, and is said to be so dark, that for five days together day and night are the same; this was the ninth of the ten plagues, (<021021>Exodus 10:21-23) and was an emblem of the darkness which is on the minds of men in an unregenerate state; who are covered with gross darkness, and are even darkness itself; which is universal as to persons, and the powers and faculties of their souls concerning divine things: and it also bears some resemblance to the darkness which will be in the kingdom of the beast upon the pouring out of the fifth vial, or plague, on spiritual Egypt, (<661610>Revelation 16:10). And they rebelled not against his word: the plague of darkness, and the rest of the plagues which God commanded; these, as they were his servants, were not disobedient to him, they came at his word; (see <19A531>
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