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| Ten Commandments Corresponding to the Plagues of Egypt.
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Chapter LV.—Ten
Commandments Corresponding to the Plagues of Egypt.
“On account of those, therefore, who by
neglect of their own salvation please the evil one, and those who by
study of their own profit seek to please the good One, ten things have
been prescribed as a test to this present age, according to the number
of the ten plagues which were brought upon Egypt. For when Moses,
according to the commandment of God, demanded of Pharaoh that he should
let the people go, and in token of his heavenly commission showed
signs, his rod being thrown upon the ground was turned into a
serpent.703
And when
Pharaoh could not by these means be brought to consent, as having
freedom of will, again the magicians seemed to do similar signs, by
permission of God, that the purpose of the king might be proved from
the freedom of his will, whether he would rather believe the signs
wrought by Moses, who was sent by God, or those which the magicians
rather seemed to work than actually wrought. For truly he ought
to have understood from their very name that they were not workers of
truth, because they were not called messengers of God, but magicians,
as the tradition also intimates. Moreover, they seemed to
maintain the contest up to a certain point, and afterwards they
confessed of themselves, and yielded to their superior.704
Therefore the last plague is
inflicted,705
the
destruction of the
first-born, and then Moses is commanded to consecrate the people by the
sprinkling of blood; and so, gifts being presented, with much entreaty
he is asked to depart with the people.
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