That Moses had no knowledge of magic, for the magician was not afraid of what he did because he knew that he had no reality from the outside and that he was not as he appeared to the eyes of those who saw them. So God commanded Moses to throw down his staff and told him that it would capture what they had done. When Moses threw his staff and it was alive, all the magicians knew. From what I learned of Moses’ fear, if it had been from him and he had been a magician, he would not have been afraid. They saw his stick as a real snake. They knew then that it was an unseen command from God who was calling them to believe in him, and he had no knowledge of magic. So that serpent grabbed all the ropes and sticks that were in the valley, that is, it grabbed it. The images of snakes, so they appeared to be ropes and sticks as they were, and God took their eyes away from that, for God says, “You grasped what they made,” and they did not make ropes or sticks. Rather, in the eyes of the observers, they made images of serpents, and they are the ones that grasped the staff of Moses. So pay attention to what I mentioned to you, for the commentators were astonished by this perception in the narrations of God Almighty. For he said: Their ropes and sticks were tied, so the sign among the magicians was that Moses feared and he took images of snakes from ropes and sticks, and they knew that what Moses brought was from God, so they believed in what Moses brought about the last of them, and they fell down in prostration at this sign.