And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
Whether then the reason was what I have said, or whether in the secret appointment of God there was some unknown reason for his telling the people by Moses to borrow things from the Egyptians and to take them away with them, this remains certain. This was said for some good reason and Moses could not lawfully have done otherwise than God told him, leaving to God the reason of the command, while the servant’s duty is to obey. Against Faustus, a Manichaean