Romans 11:8

accordynge as it is written: God hath geven the the sprete of vnquyetnes: eyes that they shuld not se and eares that they shuld not heare even vnto this daye.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

In The King James Version

(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.

In Context

7What then? Israel hath not obtayned that that he sought. No but yet the election hath obtayned it. The remnaunt are blynded

9And David sayth: Let their table be made a snare to take them with all and an occasion to faule and a rewarde vnto them.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:13Therfore speake I to them in similitudes: for though they se they se not: and hearinge they heare not: nether vnderstonde.

Luke 8:10And he sayde: vnto you is it geven to knowe the secretes of the kyngdom of God: but to other in similitudes that when they se they shuld not se: and when they heare they shuld not vnderstonde.

Matthew Henry on Romans 11:2-33

The State of the Jews; The State of the Gentiles; The Gentiles Warned; The Future Conversion of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my… Read the whole commentary →

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