A frog sitting upon a lotus (Nelumbium) was also regarded by the ancient Egyptians as symbolical of the return of the Nile to its bed after the inundations. Amongst the Egyptians the frog was considered a symbol of an imperfect man, and was supposed to be generated from the slime of the river - ἐκ τῆς τοῦ ποταμοῦ ἰλύος (see Horapollo, 1:26). The frogs would not naturally have died, in such prodigious numbers as is recorded, in a single day. The time of the occurrence was in spring, when ordinarily the old frogs would be engaged in spawning, and the younger ones would be in their tadpole state, or, at any rate, not sufficiently developed to enable them to go far from the Water.ģ.
The numbers were unprecedented, and suddenly produced, and they were found in extraordinary places.Ģ. 3:575) but that the transaction was miraculous appears from the following considerations:ġ. 1, and other quotations cited by Bochart, Hieroz.
There can be no doubt that the whole transaction was miraculous frogs, it is true, if allowed to increase, can easily be imagined to occur in such multitudes as marked the second plague of Egypt - indeed, similar plagues are on record as having occurred in various places, as at Poeonia and Dardania, where frogs suddenly appeared in such numbers as to cause the inhabitants to leave that region (see Eustathius on Hom. Frogs came in prodigious numbers from the canals, the rivers, and the marshes they filled the houses, and even entered the ovens and kneading- troughs when, at the command of Moses, the frogs died, the people gathered them in heaps, and "the land stank" from the corruption of the bodies. Ps 78:45 Ps 105:45 Re 16:13), the animal selected by God as an instrument for humbling the pride of Pharaoh (Ex 8:2-14 Ps 78:45 Ps 105:30 Wisd.
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