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The LORD 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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Verse 21. I shall harden, and so forth Not by being the efficient cause of his sin; but by withdrawing from him, for his just punishment, the dew of grace, that might have softened his heart; and so suffering him to grow harder and harder. Challoner.—Non impertiendo misericordiam. Saint Augustine ep. 194, ad Sixt. Thus God permitted the false miracles of the magicians, and did not suffer the scourges to continue long, so that the tyrant soon relapsed and forgot his promises. Orig. Philos. xx. Theod. in Rom. ix. 16. Calmet.
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