Exodus 7:13
And Pharao's heart was hardened, and he did not hearken to them, as the Lord had commanded.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Induratumque est cor Pharaonis, et non audivit eos, sicut præceperat Dominus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ κατίσχυσεν ἡ καρδία Φαραώ, καὶ οὐκ εἰσήκουσεν αὐτῶν, καθάπερ ἐνετείλατο αὐτοῖς Κύριος.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֶּחֱזַק֙ לֵ֣ב פַּרְעֹ֔ה וְלֹ֥א שָׁמַ֖ע אֲלֵהֶ֑ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר דִּבֶּ֥ר יְהוָֽה
The Fathers on this verse
St Hippolytus The Refutation of All Heresies, Chapter XI
Now, he says, the stars are the gods of destruction, which impose upon existent things the necessity of alterable generation. These, he says, Moses denominated serpents of the wilderness, which gnaw and utterly ruin those who imagined that they had crossed the Red Sea. To those, then, he says, who of the children of Israel were bitten in the wilderness, Moses exhibited the real and perfect serpent; and they who believed on this serpent were not bitten in the wilderness, that is, (were not assailed) by (evil) powers. No one therefore, he says, is there who is able to save and deliver those that come forth from Egypt, that is, from the body and from this world, unless alone the serpent that is perfect and replete with fulness. Upon this (serpent), he says, he who fixes his hope is not destroyed by the snakes of the wilderness, that is, by the gods of generation. …
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Paulinus
Paulinus had asked Jerome two questions, (1) how can certain passages of scripture ( Exod. vii. 13; Rom. ix. 16 ) be reconciled with Free Will? and (2) Why are the children of believers said to be holy ( 1 Cor. vii. 14 ) apart from baptismal grace? For the first of these questions Jerome refers Paulinus to his version (newly made) of Origen’s treatise, On First Principles . For the second he quotes the explanation of Tertullian. Written in 400 a.d.