And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.
Ver. 28. Only ye shall not go very far.] So loath was he to lose his hold. So is the devil. a The Pope made large offers to Queen Elizabeth, as also to our king, when in Spain.
Intreat for me.] So Simon Magus, in a fright, begs Peter's prayers. So Maximinus, the persecuting emperor, sent to the Church for prayers, when God had laid upon him a grievous disease. So Ezra 6:10, "Pray for the king's life, and for his sons."
a Euseb.