For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
Ver. 12. And they became serpents.] Not really such, but in appearance only. The devil's miracles are mere impostures, phantasms, delusions. And this was the first plague that God inflicted upon Pharaoh.
Swallowed up their rods.] That is, their dragons. So hath Christ, who is life essential, swallowed up death in victory. 1Co 15:55