Deuteronomy 4:34 - Chapter 4:44—chapter 26:19. Summary

Hath God assayed , etc.; hath he ever made the attempt to come on the earth and take a nation from the midst of a nation, as he took the Hebrew people from among the Egyptians? By temptations ( מַסּוֹת , plu. of מַסָּה , a testing, a trial)— i . e . by the plagues inflicted on Pharaoh and his people, whereby they were tested and tried— by signs and by wonders . "The wonder ( מופֵת ) differs from the sign ( אוֹת ) in this, that the former denotes the properly marvelous, the extraordinary, the uncommon, consequently the subjective apprehension of the miraculous event; the latter the significant element in the miracle, the reference to the higher, Divine design, the purpose of God in it, consequently to the objective side of the miracle (comp. Deuteronomy 13:2 )". By war (cf. Exodus 14:14 ; Exodus 15:3-10 ); by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm ( Exodus 6:6 ; Exodus 14:8 ; Deuteronomy 5:15 ); and by great terrors ( Exodus 12:30-36 ), the effect on the Egyptians of the Divine inflictions (cf. Psalms 105:27-38 ; Psalms 106:21 , Psalms 106:22 ).