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Pentecost, El Greco

Acts 28:26

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Acts 28:26 (WEB)

saying, ‘Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

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Gregory of Nyssa

  • “…to the Jews at Rome, when he says, “Well spoke the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet concerning you, saying, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand,” showing, in my opinion, by Holy Scripture itself, that every specially divine vision, every theophany, every word uttered in the Person of God, is to be…” — editor's note: Cf. Acts xxviii. 25, 26. The quotation is not verbal.

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Eusebius of Caesarea

  • “For it is written concerning me, that they who have seen me will not believe in me, and that they who have not seen me will believe and be saved.” — editor's note: γέγραπται, as used by Christ and his disciples, always referred to the Old Testament. The passage quoted here does not occur in the Old Testament; but compare…

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Tertullian

  • “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” obstructed by the “fats” of which He had expressly forbidden the eating, teaching man not to be studious of the stomach.” — editor's note: See Isa. vi. 10; John xii. 40; Acts xxviii. 26, 27.

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Ambrose of Milan

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  • Matthew 13:14 and Acts 28:26 share the same wording (16 words).

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