Exodus 9:17
Dost thou yet hold back my people: and wilt thou not let them go?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Adhuc retines populum meum, et non vis dimittere eum ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔτι οὖν σὺ ἐνποιῇ τοῦ λαοῦ μου τοῦ μὴ ἐξαποστεῖλαι αὐτούς;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עוֹדְךָ֖ מִסְתּוֹלֵ֣ל בְּעַמִּ֑י לְבִלְתִּ֖י שַׁלְּחָֽם
The Fathers on this verse
Origen Origen De Principiis, Chapter I. translated from the Latin of Rufinus: On the Freedom of the Will
9. And now we must return an answer also to those who would have the God of the law to be just only, and not also good; and let us ask such in what manner they consider the heart of Pharaoh to have been hardened by God, by what acts or by what prospective arrangements. For we must observe the conception of a God who in our opinion is both just and good, but according to them only just. And let them show us how a God whom they also acknowledge to be just, can with justice cause the heart of a man to be hardened, that, in consequence of that very hardening, he may sin and be ruined. …