[2] Since not only hearing and discerning are meant by 'the ears' but also obeying, expressions such as 'speak in their ears' and 'read in their ears' are used very often in the Word, not speak or read to them, as in Jeremiah,

Hear these words which I speak in your ears and in the ears of all the people. Jer 28:7.

In the first Book of Samuel,

They spoke those words in the ears of the people. 1 Sam 11:4.

And elsewhere in that book,

Let your maidservant speak in your ears. 1 Sam 25:24.

In the Book of Judges,

Proclaim in the ears of the people, saying ... Judg 7:3.

In Moses,

Say in the ears of the people. Exod 11:2.

In the same author,

Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgements which I speak in your ears today. Deut 5:1.

In the same author,

I speak in their ears these words. Deut 31:28.

In the same author,

And Moses spoke all the words of the song in the ears of the people. Deut 32:44.

In the second Book of Kings,

He read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant. 2 Kings 23:2.

In Jeremiah,

They said to him, Sit and read it in our ears. And Baruch read it in their ears. Jer. 36:15.

In Luke,

When Jesus had finished all the words in the people's ears ... Luke 7:1.

[3] Because 'the ear' and 'hearing' mean receiving, discerning, and obeying truth, thus mean belief from start to finish, it was said many times by the Lord, He who has an ear to hear, let him hear, as in Matt. 11:15; 13:9, 43; Mark 4:9, 23; 7:16; Luke 14:35. And since 'the deaf' or 'those who do not hear' mean in the spiritual sense people with no belief in the truth because they have no knowledge nor consequently any discernment of it, 6989, 9209, the Lord, when He cured the one who was deaf, put His finger into his ears and said, Ephphatha (that is, Be opened), and immediately his ears were opened, Mark 7:32-35. All the Lord's miracles involved and were signs of states of the Church, see 8364, 9086.