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I will harden Pharaoh`s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
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God's Judgment, Man's Sin
The phrase "I will harden Pharaoh's heart" is theologically complex. Commentator John Calvin explains this isn't God creating sin, but executing a just judgment. He distinguishes between Pharaoh's sinful, willful obstinacy and God's sovereign act of hardening that heart as a judgment. God's action works in tandem with, and as a consequence of, Pharaoh's own rebellious choices.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Wonders - A word used only of portents performed to prove divine intervention; they were the credentials of God’s messengers.
19th Century
Anglican
I will harden Pharaoh’s heart. —See the comment on Exodus 4:21.
My signs and my wonders.…
16th Century
Protestant
And I will harden. Since this expression is somewhat harsh, many commentators, as I have said before, take pains to soften it. For this re…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart (See Gill on Exodus 4:21) and multiply my signs and my wonder…
God glorifies himself. He makes people know that he is Jehovah. Israel comes to know it by the fulfillment of his promises to them, and the Egyptia…
