8151. 'And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh [king of Egypt]' means obstinate opposition from the falsity that arose from evil. This is clear from the meaning of 'hardening the heart' as behaving obstinately, dealt with in 7272, 7300, 7305, 7616. When it says that Jehovah hardened his heart the meaning in the internal sense is that those steeped in evil and falsity hardened themselves, thus that the actual evils and falsities did so. On this matter see 2447, 6071, 6991, 6997, 7533, 7643, 7877, 7926.