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Title: The Bible and its story..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942 Brewer, Julius August, 1877-1953, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, F. R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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monarchs plighted word to the prophet had nowbeen twice broken. Then there came a seventhplague, a terrific storm such as had never beforebeen known in Egypt. The land of Egypt is thequietest and sunniest of all lands; storm is almostunknown there; so that to its people the tremendousliurricane must have seemed far more frightful thanto a more northern race. The Lord sent thunderand hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground.The hail smote all that was in the field, so thatmen were slain as well as beasts, and the grain wasdestroyed, with its provision for the coming year.Even the trees were beaten down and broken. In the midst of all the destruction stood Moses,his friends doubtless cowering around him bewilder-ed by this elasli of elements so strange to tliem.dazed by the blinding flashes, deafened by the roar-ing thunder and the howling winds. Their leaderalone stood calm, his outstretched rod, the symbolof his power, protecting him and directing the furyof the storm. ^ II ■-,1
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Ki)t ;3lasue of BarfenesisJ FROM THE SERIES BY GUSTAVE DORE. Tliei/ saw 7iot one another, neither rose any fromhis place for three days.—Ex., 10, 23. THE storm broke Pharaohs obstinacy oncemore. It is enough! he cried; and I havesinned! and again I and my peoi)le arewicked. For the third time he promised tliat the Is-raelites sliould be allowed to -depart; and once moreMoses stayed the plague; though he said coldly toPharaoh that he knew tliis promise also would bebroken. It was ; and the eightli plague, that of locusts,was sent. Moses gave the Egyptians forewarning ofthis; for it was a visitation whose meaning they un-derstood, a calamity which in all ages has threatenedthe eastern lands. Sometimes swarms of locusts eatup every sign of vegetation, they destroy every seed;and in their wake comes famine. Hence at thisdread threat even Pharaohs own servants begged himto let the Israelites go, crying Knowest thou notyet that Egypt is destroyed. Yet not until thelocusts actually came, d

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