Douay-Rheims Bible: Exodus — Introduction, Chapter Summaries and Notes by Richard Challoner
Chapter 7
SummaryMoses and Aaron go into Pharao: they turn the rod into a serpent; and the waters of Egypt into blood, which was the first plague. The magicians do the like, and Pharao's heart is hardened.
[7:1] The god of Pharao. . . Viz., to be his judge; and to exercise a divine power, as God's instrument, over him and his people.
[7:3] I shall harden, etc. . .not by being the efficient cause of his hardness of heart, but by permitting it; and by withdrawing grace from him, in punishment of his malice; which alone was the proper cause of his being hardened.
[7:11] Magicians. . Jannes, and Mambres, or Jambres, 2 Tim. 3.8.