...report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?" And in Isaiah vi, God said to the prophet : " Go, and tell this people ; hear ye indeed but understand...fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes." In this commission God signified what was the character of the people to whom the prophet was sent,...

...up that for a saving work of God, which looks like that judgment we read of, Is. vi. 9> — 12 : " And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed,...understand with their heart, and convert and be healed," &,c. 4. There is the wind of temptation that blows in the visible church. This was a wind that blew...

...temple," Isaiah vi. 1. " These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory and spake of him," John xii. 41 "And he said, Go and tell this people, Hear ye indeed,...understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed," Isaiah vi. 9, 10. " And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall...

...is simply the occasion. Just as in the passage in which God gives a direction to the prophet. " Go tell this people, hear ye indeed, but understand not...understand with their heart, and convert and be healed." The meaning is not, that there would be exerted upon these rejecters of the message of God a directly...

...train filled the temple .... Also I heard the voice of the LORD — JEHOVAH — saying, whom shall I send, and who will go for us. Then said I, here am...understand not ; and see ye indeed, but perceive not." But this LORD— JEHOVAH— was none other than the HOLY GHOST, as we are clearly informed by St. Paul,...

...closed." They have stopped their ears from hearing the law. Let it be even so ; " Make the heart ,>f this people fat, and make their ears heavy ; and shut...understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed,'' — Is. vi, 10. "They have chosen their own, ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations,...

...is simply the occasion. Just as in the passage in which God gives a direction to the prophet. " Go tell this people, hear ye indeed, but understand not...understand with their heart, and convert and be healed." The meaning is not, that there would be exerted upon these rejecters of the message of God a directly...

...they will hear indeed, but not care to understand ; they will see, but not regard to perceive. VI. 10. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their...understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. Yea, more than so, through the occasion of thy prophecy and holy ministry amongst them, their hearts...

...destiny. Persecution and exile are a bitter lot ; but a heavier burden than this was laid upon them. " Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand...and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes*;" — "for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall...

...Jehovah of hosts." And in the eighth verse, "Also I heard the voice of Jehovah, saying, •whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am...understand with their heart, and convert and be healed." Compare these passages with John, xii. 39 — 41. " Therefore they could not believe because that Esaias...