Isaiah 6:9 (WEB)
He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
Fathers and councils · 14
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus II.8Book II
“…declares: “Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: for the heart of this people has become fat,” etc. And let them explain why it was predicted to the Jews, that although they both heard and saw, they would not understand what was said, nor perceive what…” — editor's note: Isa. vi. 9.
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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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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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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.
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Augustine of Hippo
““Out of the mouth,” then “of babes and sucklings Thou hast made perfect praise,” Thou, our Lord, declaring first by the Apostle, “Except ye believe, ye shall not understand;” and saying by His own mouth, “Blessed are they that have not seen, and shall believe.”” — editor's note: Isa. vi. 9; Acts xiii. 27–41.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Being blind to the truth, they looked upon a stone as God, and hence, like senseless creatures, they walked in darkness, and, as the prophet cried, ‘They hear indeed, but they do not understand; they see indeed, but they do not perceive; for their heart is waxen fat, and with their ears they hear heavily.’” — editor's note: Is. vi. 9.
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John Chrysostom
““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
“And that they should not say, He slanders us as an enemy, He brings forward the Prophet declaring the same opinion, as it follows, “Thai there might be fulfilled in them the prophecy of Isaiah, who said, With the hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see and shall not behold.” [Isa 6:9]” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“For when has the Jew not been a transgressor of the law; hearing with the ear, and not hearing; holding in hatred him who reproveth in the gates, and in scorn holy speech?” — editor's note: Comp. Isa. vi. 9.
Read the whole comment“And the Lord gave them this answer: “Therefore I speak unto them in parables: because they seeing, see not; and hearing, they hear not, according to the prophecy of Esaias.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 13; comp. Isa. vi. 9.
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“But there is that direct mode of His speaking to the people—“Ye shall hear with the ear, but ye shall not understand”—which now claims notice as having furnished to Christ that frequent form of His earnest instruction: “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.”” — editor's note: Isa. vi. 9.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Mark
“Wherefore it goes on, “that seeing they might see, and not perceive, &c.” [see Isa 6:9] as if He said that they prophecy might be fulfilled which foretells these things.” — the author cites it
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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 · 37
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.19.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.19.
Cited together in Church History I.12.
Cited together in Church History I.12.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 33.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.19.
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Matthew 13:10–17 (5) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Matthew 13:10–17 (5) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Matthew 13:10–17 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Matthew 13:10–17 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Matthew 13:10–17 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 33.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 33.
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Mark 4:1–20 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Church History I.12.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.19.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.19.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.19.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.19.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.19.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 33.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.19.
Cited together in Church History I.12.
Cited together in Church History I.12.
Cited together in Church History I.12.
Cited together in Church History I.12.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.6.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.6.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.6.
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Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.