it became a serpent] (So Exod. 7. 9, 10.) To change one creature into another, (not in appearance onely, but indeed,) requires a divine Power, and is a divine proof of any thing, to which is set such a miraculous seale: and therefore the devils argument was good, (though his meaning were naught) when he would conclude, our Saviour to be the Sonne of God, by changing stones into bread, Matthew 4:3. The greater the change is, the more evidence of a divine Power appearing in it. See the Annot. on Chap. 7. vers. 10.