Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

P. " Out of the bottoms of inevitable hell." The translator has rendered this phrase : "lowest and deepest hell," as it were impossible to be fathomed. That night of calamity is presented as emanating from the lowest abyss.

The Israelites heard the noise of the Egyptians, when attacked by fierce animals, which however, the Israelites did not see, so that they were free from a horrific spectacle. Some explain it of the Egyptians, who heard the voice of the neighboring Israelites, without being able to discern them.