Exodus 7:16

And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.

Ver. 16. Hitherto thou wouldest not hear.] Indeed, he could not hear; as little as those Jews could believe Christ's miracles, John 12:37. "Therefore they could not believe," saith the text, "because that Isaiah had said, He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts," &c.