NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 13:16

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“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

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Verse 16. But blessed are your eyes. As the eyes of such as see and will not believe are miserable, so, he says, blessed are your eyes; you see my miracles, you hear my heavenly doctrines, and so forth Aquin.—Had we not read in a preceding part, that Christ exhorted his auditors to search after the knowledge of his words, we might perhaps have thought that Jesus here spoke of corporal eyes and ears; but the eyes here mentioned, seem to me to be those which can discern the mysteries of Christ. Saint Jerome ex D. Thom. Aquin.

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