Make the heart of this people fat, 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 convert, and be healed.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Rends insensible le coeur de ce peuple, Endurcis ses oreilles, et bouche-lui les yeux, Pour qu'il ne voie point de ses yeux, n'entende point de ses oreilles, Ne comprenne point de son coeur, Ne se convertisse point et ne soit point guéri.
KJV
Make the heart of this people fat, 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 convert, and be healed.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
God is not the cause of spiritual blindness and hardness of heart. On the contrary, It is written ( Is. 6:10 ): "Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy," and Rom. 9:18 : "He hath mercy on whom He will, and whom He will He hardeneth." I answer that, Spiritual bl…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
ion 2: Further, punishment differs from guilt. But blindness of mind is a punishment as appears from Is. 6:10, "Blind the heart of this people," for, since it is an evil, it could not be from God, were it not a punishment. Therefore blindness of mind is not a sin. Objection 3: Fu…
Thomas Aquinas
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
to the manner of Scripture. As it is written, “God hath given them eyes that they should not see.” [ Isa 6:10 ] Here is also a great proof that the Old Testament is like the New. For among the Jews a man was to put his neighbour to death if he found him making a calf, or sacrific…
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