NEW TESTAMENT

John 12:40

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“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

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Verse 40. He hath blinded their eyes, and so forth See Matthew 13:14. Witham.—God blinded the Jews, not by filling them with malice, but by refusing them his graces, of which they had made themselves unworthy, and which they before abused and despised. It was their perverse will, their pride, presumption, and obstinacy, that brought on them this judgment. Saint Augustine

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