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The success of it.
[1.] He prevailed with God, Ex 9:33. But,
[2.] He could not prevail with Pharaoh: He sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, Ex 9:34, 35. The prayer of Moses opened and shut heaven, like Elias's (Jam 5:17, 18), and such is the power of God's two witnesses (Re 11:6); yet neither Moses nor Elias, nor those two witnesses, could subdue the hard hearts of men. Pharaoh was frightened into a compliance by the judgment, but, when it was over, his convictions vanished, and his fair promises were forgotten. Note, Little credit is to be given to confessions upon the rack. Note also, Those that are not bettered by judgments and mercies are commonly made worse.
33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad
his hands unto the Lord: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders
were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the
children of Israel go; as the Lord had spoken by Moses.
Exodus-10
The Plague of Locusts
1 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have
hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might show these my signs before him: