|Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary| 10:21-29 The plague of
darkness brought upon Egypt was a dreadful plague. It was
darkness which might be felt, so thick were the fogs. It
astonished and terrified. It continued three days; six nights in
one; so long the most lightsome palaces were dungeons. Now
Pharaoh had time to consider, if he would have improved it.
Spiritual darkness is spiritual bondage; while Satan blinds
men's eyes that they see not, he binds their hands and feet,
that they work not for God, nor move toward heaven. They sit in
darkness. It was righteous with God thus to punish. The
blindness of their minds brought upon them this darkness of the
air; never was mind so blinded as Pharaoh's, never was air so
darkened as Egypt. Let us dread the consequences of sin; if
three days of darkness were so dreadful, what will everlasting
darkness be? The children of Israel, at the same time, had light
in their dwellings. We must not think we share in common mercies
as a matter of course, and therefore that we