Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
Ver. 39. Therefore they could not believe, &c.] They could not, because they would not, saith Theophylact out of Chrysostom, who yet extolleth man's free will more than is meet. Pelagianis nondum litigantibus, patres securius loquebantur, saith Augustine, contra Julian. i. 2.