I’m no bible expert, but this is astounding!
The more often a message is repeated, the greater importance it has. Duh
Even more astounding and adding a GREAT sense of urgency to the message is this fact: In my copy of the OT, the account covers 1,047 pages; while the NT is recounted in only 401 pages [New American Bible s.c.] That’s less than 60% of the space and nearly 30% MORE OFTEN! SURELY, this is a message for our times!
Matt.13: 9 “He who has ears, let him hear." 15 For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.'
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.
Let Him who has ears Hear Me
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By Pat Miron
Matt.11:15 “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
What does this message mean?
My dear friends in Christ,
Another KEY to understanding the Bible message, is “how often a particular theme is repeated.”
For example The (Holy Eucharist) appears by five different authors;
ED> note-- i believe Patrick j Miron means to say " the pass-over, or communion as in 1 cor 11,
appears in the bible.
“Take up your Cross and follow Me,” appears five times by four different authors,
and the message above appears,
by Matthew three times, by Mark three times, by Luke twice, and by Paul also three times.
That makes a TOTAL OF eleven TIMES!
TWICE AS OFTEN AS THE REAL PRESENCE.
ED Note ; this is a delusional belief of Patrick J Miron.. it really is a distortation--patrick J miron confuses natural intellect with spiritual reality
By Pat Miron
Matt.11:15 “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
What does this message mean?
My dear friends in Christ,
Another KEY to understanding the Bible message, is “how often a particular theme is repeated.”
For example The (Holy Eucharist) appears by five different authors;
ED> note-- i believe Patrick j Miron means to say " the pass-over, or communion as in 1 cor 11,
appears in the bible.
“Take up your Cross and follow Me,” appears five times by four different authors,
and the message above appears,
by Matthew three times, by Mark three times, by Luke twice, and by Paul also three times.
That makes a TOTAL OF eleven TIMES!
TWICE AS OFTEN AS THE REAL PRESENCE.
ED Note ; this is a delusional belief of Patrick J Miron.. it really is a distortation--patrick J miron confuses natural intellect with spiritual reality
Acts.7:51 "You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.”
Acts.28: 27 “For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing,
and their eyes they have closed; lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.”
Rom.11: 8 “as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear, down to this very day."
MEANING: Rom.9: 18 “So then he has mercy upon whomever he wills, and he hardens the heart of whomever he wills.”
It seems prudent, even necessary to ask WHY this is?
Ps.115: 6 “They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell.”
Ps.130:2 “Lord, hear my voice! Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!”
Isa.6: 10 “Make the heart of this people fat, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."
Isa.42: 20 “He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.”
Jer.5: 21 “"Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.”
Jer.6: 10 “To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the LORD is to them an object of scorn, they take no pleasure in it.”
Ezek.12: 2 "Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not; “
Zech.7: 11 “But they refused to hearken, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears that they might not hear.”
1. First a few different views of what the message means; what the messenger is actually saying.
From Haydock’s Catholic Bible Commentary Matt. 13: 9 [same quote]
Ver. 9. He that hath ears to hear. “By these words, we are exhorted to examine the meaning of the parables. (St. Jerome) We are also taught that not all, but only such as have had the sense of the Scriptures opened to their understanding from above, can properly understand them. The apostles themselves were in ignorance till Jesus Christ gave them the true meaning: "he opened their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures."
(St. Luke xxiv. 45.)
It is God who speaks in the Scripture, and it is God who givs us to understand what is therein delivered. His truths he conceals from the proud, while he reveals them to the little and humble. How can any persons pretend that the most mysterious, as well as the most sacred book in the world, is open to every understanding?….
[St. Paul [ACTS 13:26-27... "Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.
For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning him.”] added by PJM
Acts.28: 27 “For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing,
and their eyes they have closed; lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.”
Rom.11: 8 “as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear, down to this very day."
MEANING: Rom.9: 18 “So then he has mercy upon whomever he wills, and he hardens the heart of whomever he wills.”
It seems prudent, even necessary to ask WHY this is?
Ps.115: 6 “They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell.”
Ps.130:2 “Lord, hear my voice! Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!”
Isa.6: 10 “Make the heart of this people fat, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."
Isa.42: 20 “He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.”
Jer.5: 21 “"Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.”
Jer.6: 10 “To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the LORD is to them an object of scorn, they take no pleasure in it.”
Ezek.12: 2 "Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not; “
Zech.7: 11 “But they refused to hearken, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears that they might not hear.”
1. First a few different views of what the message means; what the messenger is actually saying.
From the Protestant Matthew Henry’s Comprehensive Commentary of the Bible:
From Haydock’s Catholic Bible Commentary Matt. 13: 9 [same quote]
Ver. 9. He that hath ears to hear. “By these words, we are exhorted to examine the meaning of the parables. (St. Jerome) We are also taught that not all, but only such as have had the sense of the Scriptures opened to their understanding from above, can properly understand them. The apostles themselves were in ignorance till Jesus Christ gave them the true meaning: "he opened their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures."
(St. Luke xxiv. 45.)
It is God who speaks in the Scripture, and it is God who givs us to understand what is therein delivered. His truths he conceals from the proud, while he reveals them to the little and humble. How can any persons pretend that the most mysterious, as well as the most sacred book in the world, is open to every understanding?….
[St. Paul [ACTS 13:26-27... "Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.
For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning him.”] added by PJM
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