Saying,
Go unto this people, and say, Hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see, and not perceive:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
more now than then. This is not spoken for the former sort, but for the unbelievers. How then? Was it contrary to the prophecy, that those believed? (Go,) it says, unto this people (that is), to the unbelieving people. He did not say this to insult them, but to remove the offense. Be it known then, he says, unto you, that unto the Gentiles is sent the salvation of God. They, says he, will hear it too.
You will discover the meaning of this, my attentive hearer, if you do but take up and examine what follows upon this narration: For hearing, he says, ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing, ye shall see, and not perceive.
Through them, to wit, had "the heart of the People been made thick, lest they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with a heart"
