Rabanus Maurus
Medieval
c. A.D. 780–856
“Whoever examines the reading of the Old Testament carefully, easily recognizes how God frequently chastised the Israelites, who sinned often, with deserved punishments, and again, when they repented, comforted them with timely comfort. However, as for foreigners, that is, the Egyptians and the Canaanites, judging them unworthy of His mercy, He exterminated them with harsh vengeance.”