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1Sa_6:6 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
Ver. 6. Wherefore then do you harden your hearts?] This they seem to speak to the dissenting party that were against the sending back of the ark with the forementioned presents, as a thing dishonourable to their nation. The world is a pearl in the eyes of politicians: they are like children, always standing on their heads, and shaking their heels against heaven.
As the Egyptians and Pharaoh, &c.] This is the true use of history;
“ Discite iustitiam moniti, ” - Virg.