85. * when it pleases God the Messiah, such a light is imparted to the mind devoted to understanding that it is indescribable. Likewise, when it is permitted, such a darkness is brought on, but in this case by demons, that a person cannot see any meaning in the words - in fact, that one even views the subject matter as if from a different point of view, indeed a divergent one - even a contrary one. That is a very strange thing, which has become familiar to me by much experience, over a long period of time.* This, therefore, is to "make someone seeing, or blind," etc. [verse 11]. [Ignorance; Understanding, Understand; Light] * In the original this paragraph was emphasized by the word "Obs." written twice in the margin.