...the tongs from off the altar: and he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged....people, HEAR ye indeed, but understand not; And see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, And make their ears heavy, and shut...

...makes it much more reafonable to believe he did : But fuppofing he fpake of the Jews in his own time,) Go and tell this People, Hear ye indeed, but understand not ; and fee ye indeed, but perceive not : make the heart of this People fat, and make their Ears heavy, and...

...means used with them, after they were given up to judicial blindness and hardness, Isa. vi. 9, 10. And he said, go and tell this people, hear ye indeed, but understand not ; and see ye indeed, but perceive not ; make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut...

...for any man of sense either to conceive or admit them."* How literally is the Scripture fulfille.d. " And he said, go and tell this people, hear ye indeed, but understand not; see ye indeed, but perceive not; make gross the heart of this people; make their ears dull, and close...

...tongs from off' the altar ; and he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged....send, and who will go for us ? Then said I, here am /, send me. HEN Isaiah had already been employed a a considerable time in the prophetical office, he...

...be here, the more lively hope have we to be shortly with them, and to be wholly as they are. Ver. 8. .Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom...will go for us ? Then said I, Here am I; send me. THIS inquiry imports not a doubtful deliberation in God, but a purpose to send. He is represented as...

...himself. Then said I, Here [am] I ; send me ; / am very willing to go now my incapacity it 9 removed. And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye, indeed, but understand not ; and see ye indeed, but perceive not ; though I give you tlie means of instruction, and lay before you thing»...

...was the state of those, to whom the prophet Isaiah was sent, when he received the awful commission. " Go and tell this people, hear ye indeed, but understand not ; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut...

...function. VI. 1 Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. VI. 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us ? Then said /, Here am /; send me. Then the Lord represented a voice to my ear, saying, after the manner of men,...

...stubborn incredulity of the Jews, and the extraordinary desolation of their land, Isaiah thus describes. And he said, Go, and tell this people, hear ye indeed, but understand not ; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make'8 the heart of his people fat, and make their eyes heavy, and shut...