LETTER X.

Moses denounces the plague of thunder and hail against Egypt--Grand gathering of the storm of God's anger--The storm hangs over Goshen but harms it not--The purpose of God in these judgments--Terror of Pharaoh--Agrees to let Israel go--Scene of desolation and death--Pharaoh seeks to drown his terror in a banquet--In his revels curses God--Again refuses to let the people go--He vacillates--Orders Moses and Aaron to be thrust from the palace--The plague of the locusts--Despair of the Egyptians--Pharaoh acknowledges his sin--The plague ceases--Character of Pharaoh--The plague of darkness--Description of the plague--Pharaoh unequal to the combat with God--His rage against Moses--Moses denounces upon Pharaoh God's last and terrible judgment--The Egyptians deify him--pp. 539-558.