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Matthew 13:17

For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them.

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Hilary of Poitiers

AD 368

Or, He is speaking of the blessedness of the Apostolic times, to whose eyes andears it was permitted to see and to hear the salvation of God, many Prophets and just men having desired to see and to hear that which was destined to be in the fulness of times; whence it follows; “Verily I say unto you, that many Prophets and just men have desired to see the things that ye see, and to hearthe things that ye hear, and have not heard them.”

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