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Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”
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Verse 10. Blind. The prophets are said to do what they denounce. Saint Thomas Aquinas 1. q. xxiv. 3. Sanct.—Septuagint “heavy or gross is the heart,” and so forth The authors of the New Testament quote it thus less harshly.—Them. Is God unwilling to heal? Why then does he send his prophet? Calmet.—He intimates that all the graces offered would be rendered useless by the hardened Jews. Saint Isidore Pelus. 2. ep. 270.—Hebrew may be, “surely they will not see,” and so forth Calmet.
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