and the fish died] Which was an evidence, that it was a true Miracle, and that Miracle a plague to them, by whom fish was used for necessarie diet, as Numbers 11:5. And to some it served, as to many no doubt it did, for dainties; and that plague upon fishes may confute the superstitious conceit of Papists concerning fishes, as if they were holier then other meats, because they came not under the curse, as other creatures, by the Floud. throughout all the land] Of Egypt and of Goshen also, (it is like) so farre as it might afflict the Egyptians, and not the Israelites.