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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Rabanus Maurus
AD 856
The heart of the Jews is made gross with the grossness of wickedness, and through the abundance of their sins they hear hardly the Lord’s words, because they have received them ungratefully.
Also Isaiah and Micah, and many other Prophets, saw the glory of the Lord; and were thence called ‘seers.’