Matthew Poole and continuators on Mark 3:5

5 And when he had looked round about on them, with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand, and he stretched it out, and his hand was restored whole as the other.

See the Notes upon Matth. 12.9. The Word [non-Latin text not transcribed] used, v. 5. may be understood to signify Blindness, or hardness, as it may derive from [non-Latin text not transcribed] Callus or [non-Latin text not transcribed] Caecus, but the Derivation of it from the former best obtains, Hardness being a quality in a thing by which it resisteth our touch, and suffers us not to make an impression upon it, that ill Condition of the Soul, by which it becomes Rebellious, and disobedient to the Will of God Revealed, so as it is not affected with it, nor doth it make any impre[illegible: 1 letter]sion of Faith or holiness upon the Soul, is as usually called harddness of Hearts. But for the Argument of this History, proving Acts of Mercy lawful on the Sabbath Day, it is fully spoken to in the Notes on Matth. 12.

Marginal references: Or, b[illegible: 1 letter]ndness.