Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 11:8

8. According as it is written , God hath given them the spirit of slumber , eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this day .

Viz In Isa. 6.9. and 29.10.

The word signifieth, such a dead sleep, as those have, who are pri[illegible: 2 letters]t or stung with venemous Beasts, out of which, they hardly or never Awake.

q. d. So it was of old, and so it is still. Or else these words (the former being included in a Parenthesis) may be joyned with the last words of the foregoing Verse; thus the Rest are blinded unto this day.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 paragraph]; [illegible: 1 word] 12.2. [illegible: 1 word] 13.14.