11Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
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For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-14)Here the apostle returns to what he had in Heb. 5:6 ; Ps. 110:4 ; concerning the peculiar order of the priesthood of Christ, that is, the order of Melchisedec. And here, I. He declares he had many things which he could say to them concerning this mysterious person called Melchisedec, whose priesthood was eternal, and therefore the salvation procured thereby should be eternal also. We have a more p…
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