You are still exalting yourself against my people and will not let them go.
Pharaoh exalts himself by trampling on God's people, yet God has already shown him through many miracles that He is their protector and will avenge their wrongs. After so many plagues, it was time for this tyrant to stop his rage; to persist in obstinacy after such chastisements was pure folly.
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Moses must repeat the demand a seventh time, though Pharaoh's heart is hardened and his case now desperate. God sends plagues on the heart itself, making it senseless or hopeless, which are the worst plagues of all. None who hardens his heart against God will prosper.
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Commenting on Exodus 9:13-21
Pharaoh treads upon God's people and refuses to let them go, showing intolerable pride against the Lord Himself; he disobeys His commands, despises His messengers, slights His miracles. What he does to them He takes as done to Himself.
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