thou shalt die] Though before he confessed Moses just, yet (against his own conscience) he threatneth to put him to death: an impudent stubbornnesse, after so many miraculous terrors, by the ministery of Moses, that he should threaten him with death, whose prayers he had so often begged for his deliverance: all wickednesse is folly, but such as this, is no lesse then madnesse, and a wonder of the devils working by divine permission: yet did not discourage Moses from his dutie, Hebrews 11:27.