Isaiah 44:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

Have not

Romans 1:21

For he hath

Cannot

2 Peter 2:14

General references

Matthew 13:13

Matthew 24:39

Bible References

Have not

because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor did they give thanks; but they became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

For he hath

And to them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says, 'With hearing ye will hear, and will not understand; and, seeing, ye will see, and will not perceive;

Who, in the past generations, suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways;

And, as they did not approve the holding of God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not becoming;

as it has been written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this day."

And, even if our Gospel has been veiled, it has been veiled in those who perish;

him whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and lying wonders,

Cannot

"Broods of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being yourselves evil? For, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

How can ye believe, who receive glory from one another, and the glory which is from God only ye seek not?

Why do ye not understand My speech? it is because ye cannot hear My word.

On this account they could not believe, because Isaiah said again,

having eyes full of lustfulness, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstable souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of a curse;

General references

On this account, I speak to them in parables; because, seeing, they see not; and, hearing, they hear not, nor understand.

and they knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of Man.