29. this . . . sign unto you —The calamity of Pharaoh-hophra (see on :- ) shall be a sign to you that as he shall fall before his enemy, so you shall subsequently fall before Nebuchadnezzar ( :- ) [GROTIUS]. CALVIN makes the "sign" to be simultaneous with the event signified, not antecedent to it, as in Exodus 3:12 . The Jews believed Egypt impregnable, so shut in was it by natural barriers. The Jews being "punished in this place " will be a sign that their view is false, and God's threat true. He calls it "a sign unto you, " because God's prediction is equivalent to the event, so that they may even now take it as a sign. When fulfilled it would cease to be a sign to them: for they would be dead. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-30" class="com-number"
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