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Deuteronomy 29:4
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2 Now Moses called all Israel and said to them: a“You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land—  
3 athe great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.  
4 Yet athe Lord has not given you a heart to1 perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day.  
5 aAnd I have led you forty years in the wilderness. bYour clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet.  
6 aYou have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or similar drink, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.  
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Deuteronomy 29:4

Yet the Lord - That is, you have perceived and seen them with the eyes of your body, but not with your minds and hearts; you have not yet learned rightly to understand the word and works of God, so as to know them for your good, and to make a right use of them, and to comply with them: which he expresseth thus, the Lord hath not given you, etc. not to excuse their wickedness, but to direct them to whom they must have recourse for a good understanding of God's works; and to intimate that although the hearing ear, and the seeing eye, be the workmanship of God, yet their want of his grace was their own fault, and the just punishment of their former sins; their present case being like theirs in Isaiah's time, who first shut their own eyes and ears that they might not see and hear, and would not understand, and then by the righteous judgment of God, had their eyes and ears closed that they should not see and hear, and understand. God's readiness to do us good in other things, is a plain evidence, that if we have not grace, that best of gifts, 'tis our own fault and not his: he would have gathered us, and we would not.


 
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