...concerned in hardening, as well as in softening the hearts of men. " The Lord of hosts" said to Isaiah, " Go and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand...eyes ; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and convert, and be healed." St. Paul says of some sinners. " Because they received not...

...of proud opposers. This was the end of the commission given to Isaiah, when the Lord said to him, " Go and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand...eyes ; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and convert, and be healed." And although it was not...

...tell this people, hear ye indeed, but PROP. understand not ; and see ye, indeed, but perceive. XIV' not; make the heart of this people fat, and make"...understand with their heart, and convert and be healed : was {Matt. xiii. 14.) fulfilled, was verified, was equally true, equally applicable to the Jews,...

...brethren. If God has pronounced against any person or people, what he did against the Jews, (Isa. vi. 10) " Make the heart of this people fat, and make their...understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed;" will all the force you can use be a means to make them hear and understand, and be converted ? But,...

...I am undone ; for I am a man of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of Hosts.'' "And he said, go and tell this people, Hear ye indeed,...fat, and make their ears heavy and shut their eyes, &c." Verses 9, 10. Now John the evangelist quotes this latter passage, speaking of the Jews' rejecting...

...hosts : the whole earth is full of his glory. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us ? Then said I, Here am...and understand with their heart, and convert, and be beaJed." Concerning this passage it is said, " The Trinity is expressed, in the adoration of the seraphims,...

...'blindness of the Jews, quoted by our Saviour himself, by St. John, and twice by our apostle; 'The Lord said, Go and tell this people, hear ye indeed, but...understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.' All this, in St. John's quotation, is given as the act of God ; and in that of St. Paul, the Jews are...

...Isaiah, and then pursue it as quoted by the Evangelist1. Isaiah vi. 9, 10. The Lord says to Isaiah, " Go and tell this people, hear ye indeed, but understand...understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed." In this there is no intimation that God was the cause of their stupidity and inattention ; nor is there...

...threatenings, the heaviest of them all is that which is expressed by Isaiah, (chap. vi. 9 — 12.) Go, tell this people, hear ye, indeed, but understand...understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. Then said I, Lord, how long ? Andhe answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the...

...threatenings, the heaviest of them all is that which is expressed by Isaiah, (chap. vi. 9 — I2.) Go, tell this people, hear ye, indeed, but understand...understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. Then said I, Lord, hoto long ? And he answered. Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and...