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Elsewhere Paul attributes the stubbornness of the non-believers to them being blinded by "the god of this world" (usually understood to mean Satan) instead of God proper, which is less strange if interpreted dualistically, but still strange if we now have the same Paul attributing stubbornness and blindness to both God proper and Satan. Unless maybe it's implicitly one of those "You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good" (Genesis 50:20) type situations.