“(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.”
as it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so that they could not see and ears so that they could not hear, to this very day." — Paul combines Isaiah 29:10 and Deuteronomy 29:4 to establish that hardening of Israel has scriptural precedent. The spirit of deep sleep (pneuma katanuxeōs) describes insensibility not as mere failure to comprehend but as divinely permitted blindness.
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