And Pharaoh called out, meaning as an addition to his breaking of the covenant, in his people, meaning those who have the utmost standing with him. He commanded each of them to spread his words in a manner that reaches both the distant and the near, so that it would be as if it were a calling, announcing that he is continuing in disbelief, so that some of them do not think that he has returned. And when it was as if it was said: Why did he call out? He answered by saying: He said, meaning out of fear of the belief of the Copts due to what they saw of the manifest signs, like those that shake and take hold of the hearts: O my people, appealing to them by informing them that they are one body, and urging them by describing them as having strength in what they attempt. He affirmed to them his excuse for breaking the covenant by saying: Is not mine, meaning alone, the kingdom of Egypt, meaning all of it? So there is no objection to the Children of Israel or others, so that this would lead him to claim that his dominance over the Children of Israel and his overpowering them to expel them from under his hand is an oppression against one who has the kingdom, and that it would be corruption, so there is no harm upon him if he deceives those who have done this to him by what he has made a covenant with them regarding when faced with adversity. And he did not read in the accusative to be a text upon his intended meaning of the scientific nature, and because the term 'Egyptian' is applied to a single city, and the tanween comes for belittlement, which is contrary to his intention.

And when it was that he had experienced from what he saw of the signs and what came upon him from those strikes of various punishments that astonished him to the extent that he became among those whose followers doubt his kingship, he indicated it by what he built from the situation: And this, meaning while the situation is that these rivers, and as if he had increased the splitting of the canals to his gardens and palaces, and similar matters of his, he said: They flow beneath me, meaning from any place you desire, in a manner that no one else can do. And he increased in the affirmation by saying: Do you not see what I have mentioned to you so that you know with the insights of your hearts that it is not appropriate for anyone to dispute with me? And this, by my life, is the saying of one whose powers have weakened and whose ties have loosened.