They told him, “Lord, that our eyes may be opened.”
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They told him, “Lord, that our eyes may be opened.”
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They sayd to him: Lorde that oure eyes maye be opened.
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They saide to him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.
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- Psalms 119:18 Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
- Ephesians 1:17-19 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 33 They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes…
33 They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.
Ver. 33. Lord, that our eyes might be opened] "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun," Ecc 11:7, and yet how little is this mercy prized, because common. Our corrupt natures heed nothing that we enjoy, as the eye seeth nothing that lies on it, but things at a distance it discerns clearly. Bona a tergo formosissima. Copy of good things breeds satiety, and makes them no dainties, till God for our folly many times makes us see the worth of them by the want of them, and so commends and endears his favours to us. But what a blindness is this, worse than that of Bartimeus, never to see the face but the back only of benefits.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 33. That our eyes may be opened.] He…
Verse 33. That our eyes may be opened.] He who feels his own sore, and the plague of his heart, has no great need of a prompter in prayer. A hungry man can easily ask bread; he has no need to go to a book to get expressions to state his wants in; his hunger tells him he wants food, and he tells this to the person from whom he expects relief. Helps to devotion, in all ordinary cases, may be of great use; in extraordinary cases they can be of little importance; the afflicted heart alone can tell its own sorrows, with appropriate pleadings.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 33. That our eyes may be opened — Our…
33. That our eyes may be opened — Our eyes are thirsty for the light. Long years, perhaps, have passed, and the wonderful realities of creation that surround us have been to us a dark and dismal blank. Thine is the power that can again reveal them like a new creation to our view. How many are the confessions that the blind men make of Jesus as Lord, Son of David, the King that should come, author of mercy, possessor of power divine. So can sorrow make us humble and docile to the truth. Had Israel, her priesthood, her religionists, her rulers, but been blind, physically blind, needing the Saviour’s restoring power, how quickly would they have yielded their faith to receive their sight. So truly is wicked unbelief the offspring of a proud and wicked will.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (33) Lord.—St. Mark (Mar_10:51, in the Greek), after his…
(33) Lord.—St. Mark (Mar_10:51, in the Greek), after his manner, gives the Hebrew word, Rabboni (comp. Joh_20:16), which Bartimæus actually uttered.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain That our eyes may be opened. So another blind…
That our eyes may be opened. So another blind man said, when asked the same question. (Mar_10:51) They had at first asked vaguely for mercy, now they prayed definitely for sight an example to all to make their supplications for particular graces and mercies, and not to be content with general terms which do not describe their special wants.
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