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Deuteronomy 29:4

Deuteronomy 29:4
Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive,.... They had some of them seen the above miracles with their bodily eyes, but had not discerned with the eyes of their understanding the power of…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Ability to understand the things of God is the gift of God (compare 1Co 2:13-14); yet man is not guiltless if he lacks that ability. The people had it not because they had not felt their want of it,…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Deuteronomy 29:1-9

Now that Moses had largely repeated the commands which the people were to observe as their part of the covenant, and the promises and threatenings which God would make good (according as they behaved…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

an heart to know The heartthe seat of the practical understanding; -not the seat of the affections, but the mind itself, the intellectual faculty of the soul" (Calvin), yet always in a moral aspect;…