And they smote the men that [were] at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
Ver. 11. With blindness.] Subito scotomate, saith Junius: With blindness both of body and mind, saith Aben Ezra: such as tormented their eyes, as if they had been pricked with thorns, as the Hebrew word signifies. And yet they continue groping for the door, as if they were ambitious of destruction, which now was at next door by. Deus quem destruit dementat. So Pharaoh, when under that palpable three days' darkness, rageth against God, and threateneth Moses with death. Though doomsday should be tomorrow next, wicked men must and will serve their lusts. Vale lumen amicum, said Theotimus in St Ambrose, who chose rather to lose his sight than his sin.