45. He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them. Small creatures become great tormentors. When they swarm they can sting
a man till they threaten to eat him up. The tiniest plagues are the greatest.
What sword or spear could fight with these innumerable bands? Vain were the
monarch’s armor and robes of majesty; the little cannibals were no more lenient
towards royal flesh than any other; it had the same blood in it, and the same sin
upon it. How great is that God who thus by the minute can crush the
magnificent. And frogs, which destroyed them. These creatures swarmed
everywhere, and when they died the heaps of bodies made the land stink so
foully that a pestilence was imminent. Those who contend with the Almighty
little know what arrows are in his quiver; surprising sin will be visited with
surprising punishment.
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