出エジプト記 5:10-14 JC

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:4-10

Increased cruelty. View Pharaoh's conduct as illustrative— I. OF THE VIEW WHICH A WORLDLY MAN TAXES OF RELIGION . "Ye are idle" ( Exodus 5:8 ). This way of putting the matter was partly a pretext—a tyrant's excuse for adding to burdens already sufficiently heavy; but it had so far a ground in Pharaoh's real way of viewing things, that he doubtless regarded the desire to go and sacrifice as an idle, foolish notion, one which would not have come into the people's... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:4-18

Pharaoh's first response: his answer in deed. Pharaoh has given a proud verbal refusal to the request of Moses: but he is not contented to stop with words. The first result, discouraging and discrediting of Moses' application, is still further to increase burdens and hardships already scarcely tolerable. I. CONSIDER HOW THIS ADDITIONAL SEVERITY TO ISRAEL ORIGINATED —that is, how it originated as far as Pharaoh's part in it was concerned. It came through his utterly... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:6-14

The increase of trouble for God's people no proof of the failure of his purpose. I. THE DEMANDS OF GOD PROVOKE THE WRATH OF THE UNGODLY . The mad persistence of Pharaoh in his injustice is marked— 1 . In his haste: his commands were issued "the same day." 2 . In the severity of the decree: they should find their own straw, and yet deliver the same number of bricks. 3 . In his determination to have his commands obeyed. It is not meant to be an idle threat:... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:10

The taskmasters … went out , i.e . quitted the royal palace to which they Had been summoned ( Exodus 5:6 ), and proceeded to the places where the people worked. The vicinity of Zoan was probably one great brickfield. Thus saith Pharaoh . The exact words of Pharaoh. ( Exodus 5:7 ) are not repeated, but modified, according to men's ordinary practice in similar cases. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:10-14

The command of Pharaoh gone forth—no straw was to be provided for the Israelites, they were themselves to gather straw. The taskmasters could not soften the edict; they could only promulgate it ( Exodus 5:10 , Exodus 5:11 ). And the Israelites could only choose between rebelling and endeavouring to obey. To rebel seemed hopeless; Moses and Aaron did not advise rebellion, and so the attempt was made to carry out Pharaoh's behest ( Exodus 5:12 ). But experience proved that obedience to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:10-14

A blind obedience to the commands of tyrants not laudable. The Egyptian taskmasters seem to have carried out their monarch's orders to the full, if not with inward satisfaction, at any rate without visible repugnance. They published abroad the orders given without in any way softening them ( Exodus 5:10 , Exodus 5:11 ), harassed the Israeli people all day long by "hasting them" ( Exodus 5:13 ), and bastinadoed the Israelite officers at night ( Exodus 5:14 ). How different their... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:10-15

Bricks without straw. Tyrants seldom lack subordinates, as cruel as themselves, to execute their hateful mandates. Not only are these subordinates generally ready to curry favour with their lord by executing his orders with punctilious rigour, but, when they get to know that particular persons are in disfavour, they find a positive delight in bullying and insulting the unhappy victims, and in subjecting them to every species of vexatious interference. The callous taskmasters entered... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:11

Get you straw where ye can find it . Straw was not valued in Egypt. Reaping was effected either by gathering the ears, or by cutting the stalks of the corn at a short distance below the heads; and the straw was then left almost entirely upon the ground. Grass was so plentiful that it was not required for fodder, and there was no employment of it as litter in farmyards. Thus abundance of straw could be gathered in the cornfields after harvest; and as there were many harvests, some sort of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:12

The people were mattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt . The expression used is hyperbolical, and not to be understood literally. A tolerably wide dispersion over the central and eastern portions of the Delta is probably intended. Stubble instead of straw . Rather, "stubble for the straw." Teben , the word translated straw, seems to he properly "chopped straw" ( stramenta minutim concisa , Cook). The Israelites, who had been accustomed to have this provided for them,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:13-14

The taskmasters hasted them . The Egyptian overseers, armed with rods, went about among the toiling Israelites continually, and "hasted them" by dealing out blows freely on all who made any pause in their work. The unceasing toil lasted from morning to night; yet still the required" tale" could not be produced; and consequently the native officers, whose business it was to produce the "tale," were punished by the bastinado at the close of the day not giving in the proper amount. Kalisch... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:4-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:4-18

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:6-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:10-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:10-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:10-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 5:13-14

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