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but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
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Spiritual Sight Is a Gift
Commentators unanimously explain that the ability to truly understand God's actions and their spiritual significance is not a natural human capacity. It is a special gift of grace from God. As John Calvin notes, people remain blind even in the brightest light of God's miracles until God himself opens their eyes and gives them a 'heart to perceive.'
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Ability to understand the things of God is the gift of God (compare 1 Corinthians 2:13–14); yet man is not guiltless if he lacks that a…
19th Century
Anglican
Yet the Lord has not given you a heart to perceive. —“To mark the mercies of the Holy One, blessed be He! and to hold fas…
Baptist
You saw all that, and yet did not see it; you saw the external work, but the internal lesson you did not perceive. A very mournful statement to mak…
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16th Century
Protestant
Yet the Lord hath not given. By reproaching them with their past stupidity, Moses stirs up their desire for a better understanding. It is …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yet the Lord has not given you an heart to perceive They had some of them seen the above miracles with their bodily eyes, but h…
Both past mercies, and new mercies, should be considered by us as motives for obedience. The hearing ear, and seeing eye, and the understanding hea…
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