If the sun had a voice,
it might say, “I both liquefy and dry up.” Although liquefying and drying are
opposite things, the sun would not speak falsely on this point. For wax is
melted and mud is dried up by the same heat. In the same way, the operation
performed through the instrumentality of Moses, on the one hand, hardened
Pharaoh (because of his own wickedness), and it softened the mixed Egyptian
multitude, who departed with the Hebrews. …
Now suppose that the
words the apostle addressed to sinners had been addressed to Pharaoh. Then, the
announcements made to him will be understood to have been made with particular
application. It is as to one who – according to his hardness and unrepentant
heart – was treasuring up wrath for himself. For his hardness would not have
been demonstrated nor made manifest unless miracles had been performed,
particularly miracles of such magnitude and importance.
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