[28:27] 1 tn Or “insensitive.”
[28:27] sn The heart of this people has become dull. The charge from Isaiah is like Stephen’s against the Jews of Jerusalem (Acts 7:51-53). They were a hard-hearted and disobedient people.
[28:27] 2 tn Grk “they hear heavily with their ears” (an idiom for slow comprehension).
[28:27] 3 sn Note how the failure to respond to the message of the gospel is seen as a failure to turn.
[28:27] 4 sn A quotation from Isa 6:9-10.