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Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
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The Justice in Hardening
Commentators explain that God's act of hardening Pharaoh's heart is a righteous judgment, not an arbitrary action. They note a progression: Pharaoh first had a hard heart and actively hardened it himself against God's commands. Only then did God judicially harden it as a punishment, using Pharaoh's rebellion to ultimately display His own power and glory.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I will harden - Calamities which do not subdue the heart harden it. In the case of Pharaoh, the hardening was at once a righteous j…
19th Century
Anglican
All those wonders. —Not the “three signs” of Exodus 3:3-9, but the “portents” or “wonders” which were to be done before Pharaoh, a…
16th Century
Protestant
When you go to return. Moses had not previously enumerated the wonders, but from this verse we gather that whatever we will shortly read w…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the Lord said to Moses. At the same time he appeared to him in Midian, and ordered him to go into Egypt, even before …
After God had appeared in the bush, He often spoke to Moses. Pharaoh had hardened his own heart against the groans and cries of the oppressed Israe…
