Romans 11:8

according as it is written Isaiah 29:10, and Deuteronomy 29:4. (Hebrews, 3.) The two passages combined read thus, from the Heb., "The Lord hath poured out (or spread) over you the spirit of deep sleep, and the Lord hath not given to you eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day:" The unbelief of Israel of old, traced by Moses and Isaiah to the mysterious withholding of grace, is here interpreted by St Paul to be a "prophecy in act" of the unbelief of Israel, and of its cause, in the days of Messiah. It will be seen that the words "unto this day" are part of the quotation, and that therefore no brackets should be used in this verse. As Moses indicated by them a continuous"hardening" of the mass of the nation in his day, so St Paul takes them to foreshadow the like continuousness in the Gospel age.