Notes on The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))
4:12 That seeing they may see, etc: in punishment of their wilfully shutting their eyes, (St. Matt. 13.15,) God justly withdrew those lights and graces, which otherwise he would have given them, for their effectual conversion.
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