11:8 as it is written. This is a rather free translation and paraphrase of Isaiah 29:10,13, and Deuteronomy 29:3-4, noting that Israel as a nation (apart from the elect nation-in-a-nation, the true Israel in this age) has been judicially blinded and deafened as a result of its volitional refusal to see or hear the true revelation and will of God.