23. Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not. They will wander in a darkness that may be felt. They have loved
darkness rather than light, and in darkness they will abide. Judicial blindness
fell upon Israel after our Lord’s death and their persecution of his apostles;
they were blinded by the light which they would not accept. Eyes which see no
beauty in the Lord Jesus, but flash wrath upon him, may well grow yet more dim,
till death spiritual leads to death eternal. And make their loins continually to shake. Their conscience will be so ill at ease that they
will continually quiver with fear; their backs will bend to the earth (so some
read it) with groveling avarice, and their strength will be utterly paralyzed,
so that they cannot walk firmly, but will totter at every step. See the
terrifying, degrading, and enfeebling influence of unbelief. See also the
retaliation of justice: those who do not want to see will not see; those who
would not walk in uprightness will be unable to do so.
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