Isaiah 6:10 (WEB)
Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”
Fathers and councils · 21
Gregory of Nyssa
“These are his clever tricks of dialectic; but we mere laymen in argument do not deny that, so far as voice and tongue are concerned, we are what his speech sets forth about us, but we allow also that our ears, as the prophet says, are made ready for intelligent hearing.” — editor's note: This phrase seems to be quoted from Eunomius. The reference to the “prophet” may possibly be suggested by Is. vi. 9–10: but it is more probably only concerned…
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“But blessed are your eyes, which see the things that ye see; and your ears, which hear what ye do hear.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 11–16; Isa. vi. 10.
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Tertullian
“They themselves read how it is written of them that they are deprived of wisdom and understanding—of the use of eyes and ears.” — editor's note: Isa. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“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.
Read the whole comment“…and their eyes have they shut; lest they hear with their ears, and see with their eyes, and understand with the heart, and be converted, and I heal them.”” — editor's note: Isa. vi. 9, 10. Quoted with some verbal differences.
Read the whole comment“They first refused it when they said to Aaron, “Make us gods, which shall go before us;” and again, afterwards, when “they heard indeed with the ear, but did not understand” their calling of God.” — editor's note: Isa. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“…lip, whilst their heart was far from Him,” in these angry words: “Ye shall hear with your ears, and not understand; and see with your eyes, but not perceive;” and, “If ye will not believe, ye shall not understand;” and again, “I will take away the wisdom of their wise men, and bring to nought the understanding of…” — editor's note: Isa. vi. 10 (only adapted).
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
“(Isa. 6:10.)” — the author cites it
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIII.12Conference XIII
“For the heart of this people is waxed fat, and their ears are dull of hearing: and they have closed their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart, and be turned and I should heal them.”” — editor's note: Is. vi. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIV.18Conference XIV
“…closed: lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and be converted and I should heal them.”” — editor's note: Is. vi. 10.
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Justin Martyr
“‘For your ears are closed, your eyes are blinded, and the heart is hardened,’ Jeremiah has cried; yet not even then do you listen.” — editor's note: Not in Jeremiah; some would insert, in place of Jeremiah, Isaiah or John. [St. John xii. 40; Isa. vi. 10; where see full references in the English margin. But…
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Ambrose of Milan
“…been dull of hearing, and their eyes have they darkened, lest ever they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand in their heart.”” — editor's note: Isa. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“Therefore, they could not believe, because Isaiah said again, He hath blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they might not see with their eyes and understand with their heart and be converted, and I should heal them.” — editor's note: Isa. vi. 10.
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John Chrysostom
“And He said, Ye shall hear with your ears, and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive.” ( Isa. vi. 8, 10.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““For in them is fulfilled,” saith He, “the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 14. See Is. vi. 9, 10.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
“As it is written, “God hath given them eyes that they should not see.” [Isa 6:10] Here is also a great proof that the Old Testament is like the New.” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“And hence the evangelist also mentions that prophesy of Isaiah, “Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes.”” — editor's note: Isa. vi. 10; Matt. xiii. 15
Read the whole comment“…according as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of remorse, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this day”?” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 7; Isa. vi. 10; “spirit of remorse,” as in margin of English Bible, where the text has “blindness.”—Tr.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…the Creator, and without injury to the creature; before my ear had been sufficiently opened to the instruction of the Lord, and He had opened mine ear to hear without heaviness, and had set a golden earring with precious sardius, that is, a wise man’s word in an obedient ear; before my mouth had been opened to draw…” — editor's note: Isai. l. 4; vi. 10.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“And he transfers (those marks), he says, to those who close the eyelid, as the naphtha drawing the fire in every direction towards itself; nay rather, as the magnet (attracting) the iron and not anything else, or just as the backbone of the sea falcon, the gold and nothing else, or as the chaff is led by the amber.” — editor's note: There is a hiatus here. Miller, who also suggests διαφέρει instead of μεταφέρει supplies the deficiency as translated above. The Abbe Cruice fills up the…
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For the heart of this people hath waxed gross, and they hardly hear with their ears, and they have shut up their eyes, lest haply they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should return, and I should heal them.”” — editor's note: Isa. vi. 9, 10.
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Cross-references · 43
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Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 12.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 12.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 12.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 12.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 12.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Matthew 10:34–36 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.29.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.29.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.29.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.29.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.29.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.29.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.15.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.15.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.15.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.15.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.22.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 12 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.22.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.15.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.22.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.15.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.15.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.15.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.15.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.29.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.29.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.6.
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
Quoted in
Matthew 13:15 takes up the words of Isaiah 6:10 (12 words in common).
John 12:40 takes up the words of Isaiah 6:10 (8 words in common).
Acts 28:27 takes up the words of Isaiah 6:10 (13 words in common).
