Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 8:26
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Exodus8:26
26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do: for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: Lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us ?
Heb. Not right, neither in Gods eyes, who hath appointed us the place, as well as the thing: nor in the Egyptians eyes, as it follows.
That which the Egyptians abhor to kill or to see killed; as not onely Scripture, but profane Authours, as Diodorus, and Tully, and Iuvenal, witness, because they worshipped them as Gods, as is notoriously known.
It was a just fear. For when once a Roman had but killed a cat, though imprudently, the people tumultuously met together and beset his house and killed him in spight of the King and his Princes, who used their utmost power and diligence to prevent it.
Marginal references: Gen. 43. 32. and 46. 34.
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