Isaiah 6:9-13 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear you indeed, but understand not; and see you indeed, but perceive not.… It may be said that in the passage under consideration the utterance is not the prophet's, but God's. But this makes no difference, since Isaiah's mind was the field of revelation; and, strictly speaking, there is no more difficulty in the idea of God's accommodating Himself to modes of human thought than in His employing our modes of speech. It is a necessity limiting the absolute truth of revelation. If men's minds are to be reached, the Spirit must use such avenues of approach as have been thrown up for other occasions. God's communications to Isaiah would be tinctured by Isaiah's habits of thought as inevitably as the prophet's publication of them. (E. W. Shalders.) Parallel Verses KJV: And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. |
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