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But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh`s heart, and he didn`t let the children of Israel go.
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A Just and Consequential Hardening
Commentators explain that God hardening Pharaoh's heart was not an arbitrary act, but a just consequence of Pharaoh's own repeated rebellion. Scholars suggest God withdrew His restraining grace, justly giving Pharaoh over to the pride and obstinacy he had already chosen. As Matthew Henry notes, 'Those who have often resisted their convictions are justly given up to the lusts of their hearts.'
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Exodus
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19th Century
Anglican
The Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart. — Compare above, Exodus 9:12.
Baptist
God kept his grace back from him, so that he relapsed into his natural state of obduracy. Pharaoh is the great mirror of pride and obstinacy; I won…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart For as yet he had not brought all his judgments on him he designed to bring:
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Presbyterian
God commands Moses to stretch out his hand; locusts came at the call. An army might more easily have been resisted than this host of insects. Who t…
