Does God
LITERALLY Harden Hearts?
But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he
would not let them go. (Exodus 10:27; King James Version)
But JEHOVAH permitted Pharaoh’s heart to be
hardened, so that he would not send them away. (A Translation of the
Old Testament Scriptures from the Original Hebrew By Helen Spurrell)
Commentary: “Nothing but a total unacquaintance with
the Oriental style could have, hence, given rise to the absurd idea, that God
really hardened the heart of Pharaoh. Everywhere in Scripture God is said to do
what he permits, whether good or bad, and especially if the thing done be
uncommon, and out of the ordinary course of things. Let it suffice to have,
once for all, made this remark…. Yet I will permit his heart to be so hardened
that he will not let the people go.”
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Notes
Barrett,
Richard A. F. A Synopsis of Criticism Upon Those Passages of the Old
Testament in which Modern Commentators have Differed, Vol. I (London:
Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847), p. 208
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