...introduces and applies on the present occasion, Therefore speak I to them in parables, became steitig they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. To the Disciples were openly imparted the mysteries of the Gospel dispensation, because they had honestly...

...now speak to them in parables, whereas I have formerly used the plainest mannerofcliscour.se: because seeing, they see not ; and hearing, they hear not', neither do they understand ; inasmuch as they do not honestly use the faculties that God has given tiicm, but are like persons...

...knowledge ; to the others he threatens the loss of those advantages which they possess. The expressions, Seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they mvderstand, signify, that those who set themselves against the doctrine of Christ, do not perceive,...

...I recived no benefit from hearing' you. CAIILILE , Therefore speak I to them in parables, because, seeing, they see not; and hearing, they hear not; neither do they understand. BIBLE.. Doubtless you will make a long pause ere you report that by my writings you have received any...

...not have such overpowering evidence as should force them to believe. St. Matthew only states, " that seeing, they " see not ; and hearing, they hear not, " neither do they understand." And St. Luke, though he used a different form of speech, might state as the motive, what he meant to...

...finding this attachment and this evil heart in the generality of his hearers, observes of them, ' that seeing, they see not, and hearing, they hear not, neither do they understand.' It is for this reason, that he so often cries out, to men who were, we may be sure, by no means naturally...

...they were accounted as a strange thing ;" or those of the Redeemer respecting the Jewish people, " Seeing they see not ; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand." Art. IX. The Barn and the Steeple. 12mo. pp. 198. Price 4*. &/. London. 1828. VERY one knows that a...

...the accumulation of their own misery, and thus the prophecy of Isaiah is accomplished in them ; for seeing, they see not, and hearing, they hear not : neither do they understand. (Matt. xiii. 13.) The third obstacle to the operation of divine grace in the souls of men, is the fatal...

...given to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, to others it is not given ; and, therefore, seeing, they see not ; and hearing, they hear not ; neither do they understand." Now, though a God of infinite mercy and goodness has graciously made known to us, that * if any man...

...more fully presently. 3. The same truth is expressly asserted by our Lord, Matt. xiii. 12; " Because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand :" language which fully establishes the power of men to perform all the actions for which sight and...