Ezekiel 12:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.

Thou

Acts 7:51

Which

General references

Matthew 13:13

Bible References

Thou

Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ear, you are always resisting the holy Spirit! As with your fathers, so with you!

Which

This is why I speak to them in parables, because for all their seeing they do not see and for all their hearing they do not hear or understand.

so that for all their seeing they may not perceive, and for all their hearing they may not understand, lest they turn and be forgiven."

He noted this and said to them, "Why do you argue you have no bread? Do you not see, do you not understand, even yet? Are you still dull of heart?

so he said, "It is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Reign of God, but the others get it in parables, so that for all their seeing they may not see, and for all their hearing they may not understand.

Then said Jesus, "It is for judgment that I have come into this world, to make the sightless see, to make the seeing blind."

He has blinded their eyes and made their hearts insensible, to prevent them seeing with their eyes and understanding with their hearts and turning for me to cure them.

when he said, Go and tell this people, 'You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive.'

Now what are we to infer from this? That Israel has failed to secure the object of its quest; the elect have secured it, and the rest have been rendered insensible to it ??8 as it is written, God has given them a spirit of torpor, eyes that see not, ears that hear not ??down to this very day.

Besides, their minds were dulled, for to this very day, when the Old Testament is read aloud, the same veil hangs. Veiled from them the fact that the glory fades in Christ!

Even if my gospel is veiled, it is only veiled in the case of the perishing;

their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them ??19 men who have recklessly abandoned themselves to sensuality, with a lust for the business of impurity in every shape and form.

and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them.

General references

This is why I speak to them in parables, because for all their seeing they do not see and for all their hearing they do not hear or understand.