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Is waxed gross (ἐπαχύνθη)
Lit., was made fat. Wyc., enfatted.
Are dull of hearing (τοῖς ὠσὶν βαρέως ἤ κουσαν)
Lit., They heard heavily with their ears.
They have closed (ἐκάμμυσαν)
, κατά, down, μύω, to close, as in μυστήρια above Our idiom shuts up the eyes. The Greek shuts them down. The Hebrew, in Isa 6:10, is besmear. This insensibility is described as a punishment. Compare Isa 29:10; Isa 44:18; in both of which the closing of the eyes is described as a judgment of God. Sealing up the eyes was an oriental punishment. Cheyne (“Isaiah”) cites the case of a son of the Great Mogul, who had his eyes sealed up three years by his father as a punishment. Dante pictures the envious, on the second cornice of Purgatory, with their eyes sewed up:
“For all their lids an iron wire transpierces,
And sews them up, as to a sparhawk wild
Is done, because it will not quiet stay.”
Purg., xiii., 70-72.
Be converted (ἐπιστρέψωσιν)
Rev., turn again; ἐπί, to or toward, στρέφω, to turn; with the idea of their turning from their evil toward God.