Matthew 13:13

13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Ver. 13. Therefore speak I to them in parables ] Because their wilful blindness and stubbornness deserve I should do it. They are sinners against their own souls, let them rue it therefore.

And hearing they hear not ] Audientes corporis sensu, non audiunt cordis assensu, saith Augustine.