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slights men generally put upon it, for we were told before what cold entertainment it would meet with.
(2.) He recapitulates all he had said before to this purport (Ex 11:10), that Moses did all these wonders, as they are here related, before Pharaoh (he himself was an eye-witness of them), and yet he could not prevail, which was a certain sign that God himself had, in a way of righteous judgment, hardened his heart. Thus the Jews' rejection of the gospel of Christ was so gross an absurdity that it might easily be inferred from it that God had given them the spirit of slumber, Ro 11:8.
9 And the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto
you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and
the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
Exodus-12
The Passover
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
saying,
2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be
the first month of the year to you.
Moses and Aaron here receive of the Lord what they were afterwards to deliver to the people concerning the ordinance of the Passover, to which is prefixed an order for a new style to be observed in their months (Ex 12:1, 2): This shall be to you the beginning of months. They had hitherto begun their year from the middle of September, but henceforward they were to begin it from the middle of March, at least in all their ecclesiastical computations.