Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
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Gill's Exposition
Make the heart of this people fat,.... Gross and heavy, stupid and unteachable, hard and obdurate; which is sometimes done by the preaching of the Gospel, through the wickedness of man's heart, that…
Barnes' Notes
Make the heart - The word “heart” here is used in the sense of the “mind” - to denote all their mental powers. It is commonly used in this sense in the Scriptures. Fat - Gross, heavy, dull, stupid.…
God takes Isaiah at his word, and here sends him on a strange errand - to foretel the ruin of his people and even to ripen them for that ruin - to preach that which, by their abuse of it, would be to…
Cambridge Bible
Make the heart … fat i.e. callous, unfeeling, Psa 119:70. In Hebrew idiom, the "heart" includes the understanding. shut(lit. smear) its eyes cf. Isa 29:10; Isa 44:18; Isa 42:19 f.
The difficulties…
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