For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
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Gill's Exposition
For the heart of this people is waxed gross,.... Or fat; stupefied with notions of carnal and temporal things, and become hardened against, and unsusceptible of, divine and spiritual things:
and…
Saying ... - See this passage explained in the Mat 13:14 note, and Joh 12:39-40 notes.
We have here a short account of a long conference which Paul had with the Jews at Rome about the Christian religion. Though they were so far prejudiced against it, because it was every where spoken…
Cambridge Bible
and should be converted [R. V."and should turn again"] The new rendering is to be preferred on account of the restricted meaning which in modern speech has become attached to the word "convert." In…