| Isaiah 6:10
| Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I heal them.
| Blind. The prophets are said to do what they denounce. (St. Thomas Aquinas, 1. q. 24:3.) (Sanctius) --- Septuagint, "heavy or gross is the heart," etc. 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. (St. Isidore. Pelus 2. ep. 270.) --- Hebrew may be, "surely they will not see," etc. (Calmet)
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