not by a mighty hand] Or, but by a strong hand. Exodus 6:1. &Exodus 13:3. Psalms 136:12. Wherein is no contradiction: for though God had done many miracles, which could not be done but by a mighty, yea an Almighty hand, yet the stubborne Tyrant would not yeeld, but by a very strong hand, so farre stronger then his owne, that he could have no hope to prevaile by strugling against it: by such an hand at last he let them goe, because (against it) he could not hold them any longer. And by the same hand he could have wrought their deliverance sooner, but that his long contesting with the contumacie of the Tyrant, made much for the manifestation of his Power, in multiplicitie of miracles; of his Justice, in varietie of Judgements, upon the Egyptians; and of his mercy and faithfulnesse to his people, in their so strange redemption from such intolerable bondage.