From Nave’s Topical Bible
Deafness
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 13Passages listed
- 8Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Law concerningLeviticus 19:14
- Inflicted by GodExodus 4:11
- Miraculous cure ofMatthew 11:5Mark 7:32Mark 9:25
- FIGURATIVE
- Of moral insensibilityIsaiah 6:10Isaiah 29:18Isaiah 35:5Ezekiel 12:2Matthew 13:15John 12:40Acts 28:26Acts 28:27
- See Blindness, Spiritual
- [1238]CONSCIENCE, DEAD
- See Impenitence
- See Obduracy
The passages, in Bible order (13)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 13 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Exodus 4:11
And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
Commentary on Exodus 4:111 voice
Just as in Exodus God speaks to Moses, when he delays and fears to go to the people, saying, "Who gave a mouth to man and who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? Did not I the Lord God? Go now, and I shall open your mouth, and I will teach you what you shall speak."
Cyprian· Treatise XI. Exhortation to Martyrdom 10, 258Patristic
- Leviticus 19:14
You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.
Commentary on Leviticus 19:141 voice
For to curse the deaf is to disparage one who is absent and does not hear; but to put a stumbling-block before the blind is to act indeed with discernment, but yet to give cause of offence to him who has not the light of discernment.
Gregory the Dialogist· THE BOOK OF PASTORAL RULE, Part 3, 604Patristic
- Isaiah 6:10
Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
Commentary on Isaiah 6:102 voices
228. Second, the acceptance of the sentence is set out. And these are the words of prophet; hence he says: O Lord, from that by which the Gentiles shall come in, strike Israel with blindness (Rom 11:25): blind the heart, inwardly, and make their ears …
Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on Isaiah, 1274Patristic
(Verse 9 and following) And he said: Go, and say to this people: Hearing, you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing, you shall see, and shall not perceive. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
- Isaiah 29:18
On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
Commentary on Isaiah 29:181 voice
(Verse 18). On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
- Isaiah 35:5
Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
Commentary on Isaiah 35:51 voice
"God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself," and the Creator himself was wearing the creature which was to be restored to the image of its Creator. And after the divinely miraculous works had been performed, the performance of which the spirit of prophecy had once predicted, "then shall the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf shall hear; then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb shall speak plainly."
Leo the Great· SERMON 54:4, 461Patristic
- Ezekiel 12:2
“Son of man, you are living in a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.
Commentary on Ezekiel 12:22 voices
(Chapter 12, Verses 1 et seq.) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house: they have eyes to see, and do not see: and ears to hear, and do not hear: because they are a rebellious house. Because we translate it as: You dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, the LXX (Septuagint) has put: You dwell in the midst of their iniquities. But from what follows, Because they are a rebellious house, we understand that the preceding sentence also agrees with this verse.
Jerome· Commentary on Ezekiel, 420Patristic
Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Matthew 11:5
The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.
Commentary on Matthew 11:52 voices
This last is no less than the first. And understand it as if it had been said, Even the poor; that so between noble and mean, rich and poor, there may be no difference in preaching. This approves the strictness of the master, this the truth of the teacher, that in His sight every one who can be saved is equal.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420Patristic
The blind see..., and this literally. Then if you ask when he will come: "The spirit of the Lord is upon me; he has sent me to preach to the meek" (Is 61:1), and this is signified when he says the poor have the Gospel …
Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on Matthew, 1274Patristic
- Matthew 13:15
For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
Commentary on Matthew 13:151 voice
(Verse 15) For the heart of this people has become fat, and with their ears they have heard heavily. They see without seeing, and hear without hearing. For the heart of this people has become fat, and with their ears they have heard heavily.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
- Mark 7:32
Some people brought to Him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged Jesus to place His hand on him.
Commentary on Mark 7:321 voice
(ubi sup.) Or he is deaf and dumb, who neither has ears to hear the words of God, nor opens his mouth to speak them, and such must be presented to the Lord for healing, by men who have already learned to hear and speak the divine oracles.
Bede· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 735Patristic
- Mark 9:25
When Jesus saw that a crowd had come running, He rebuked the unclean spirit. “You deaf and mute spirit,” He said, “I command you to come out and never enter him again.”
Commentary on Mark 9:252 voices
(Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc.) And His rebuking him, and saying, I charge thee, is a proof of Divine power. Again, in that He says not only, come out of him, but also enter no more into him, He shows that the evil spirit was ready to enter again, because the man was weak in faith, but was prevented by the command of the Lord.
Pseudo-Chrysostom· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 500Patristic
This saying, If thou canst, is a proof of the freedom of the will. Again, all things are possible to him that believeth, which evidently means all those things which are prayed for with tears in the name of Jesus, that is, of salvation. By this also we are taught that our faith is tottering, if it lean not on the stay of the help of God.
Pseudo-Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 9999Patristic
- John 12:40
“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”
Commentary on John 12:402 voices
That it was not God Who blinded the Jews. For else He would not have required them to give account thereof, forasmuch as He surely pardons involuntary offences. But the meaning is on this wise.
Cyril of Alexandria· Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 8, 444Patristic
It was not however with intent to fulfil the prophecies that the Jews slew the Lord, for in that case they would not have been impious; but it was by reason of their own malignity. For although the prophets foretold the things which were certainly to be brought to pass by their determined evil counsel, they foretold it for this cause, that the sober might leap over the pitfalls of the devil: for surely they who heard might also have taken heed. On which, account also the prediction was needful. That it was not God Who blinded the Jews.
Cyril of Alexandria· Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 8 (Fragments), 444Patristic
- Acts 28:26
‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”
Commentary on Acts 28:261 voice
Through them, to wit, had "the heart of the People been made thick, lest they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with a heart" obstructed by the "fats" of which He had expressly forbidden the eating, teaching man not to be studious of the stomach.
Tertullian· On Fasting, 220Patristic
- Acts 28:27
For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
Commentary on Acts 28:271 voice
They first denied themselves, stopping their ears, closing their eyes, and hardening their heart. For not only did they not hear, but they heard with difficulty. And they did this, he says, for fear that perhaps I should turn back and heal them, indicating their …
Oecumenius· Commentary on Acts, 550Patristic