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Homilies on Isaiah, Homilia VI · §2

Why hearing without understanding

Why see and not perceive; hear and not understand? A fat heart, dull ears, shut eyes — judgment that still aims at healing when they turn.

Latin

Quae causa est audientem non intelligere et videntem non videre? Incrassatum cor, aures graves, oculi clausi — iudicium et misericordia Dei circa populum.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia VI on Isaiah (Jerome’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–3.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII = GCS 33 (1925). Scheck FOTC was not used as wording. This page is Homilia VI §§1–3 (closeout).

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  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII = GCS 33 (1925) (Latin · Homilia VI §§1–3)

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