forgive,—my sinne onely this once] He taketh notice of his sinne as the cause of his punishment, and desires the removall of the cause, onely that he may be free from the effect: and he stints his petition to this sinne onely, either out of some hopefull opinion he had of himselfe that he should no more provoke God to plague him as he had done; or he seemeth modest in his request, that he might more easily obtaine it, thereby as it were, threatning himselfe, that if he transgressed so againe, he would desire to be pardoned no more. intreat] 1 Kings 13:6. Acts 8:24. Romans 15:30. this death onely] That is, this deadly plague, 2 Corinthians 11:23. for being such Locusts, as the like never were before, nor should be afterward, they might be a deadly annnoyance unto them, as wel as devourers of the fruit of the earth; and so that may well be true, which is said (in the booke of Wisdome, 100: 16. 5: 19.) for them the bitings of the grashoppers and flies killed, neither was there found any remedy for their life: indeed it was easie for God, to make them as perniclous to the persons of men, as to the fruits of the earth; and the devouring of them onely might be called a death, because it was like to produce a famine, and famine is (many times) followed with the pestilence, both which are deadly plagues.