| 14. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with kai {καὶ | kaí} anapleroutai {ἀναπληροῦται | anaplēroûtai} ‘and is fulfilled’, where the present passive indicative emphasizes the ongoing realization of a prior prophetic word. The dative autois {αὐτοῖς | autoîs} ‘to them’ specifies those experiencing this fulfillment. The nominative noun phrase hē prophēteia {ἡ προφητεία | hē prophēteía} Ēsaïou {Ἠσαΐου | Ēsaḯou} functions as the grammatical subject, with the genitive marking Isaiah as the source. The attributive participle hē légousa {ἡ λέγουσα | hē légousa} introduces the direct quotation. Within the quotation, the clause Akoē {Ἀκοῇ | Akoē̂} plus akoúsēte {ἀκούσετε | akoúsēte} uses a dative noun with its cognate future verb to stress sensory experience, paralleled by blepontes {βλέποντες | blépontes} and blepsete {βλέψετε | blépsete} for vision. Each sensory clause is followed by the emphatic negator ou mē {οὐ μὴ | ou mē} plus an aorist subjunctive (synēte {συνῆτε | synēte}, idete {ἴδητε | ídēte}) to express a strong denial of understanding and perception. The English renderings maintain this parallelism and the force of the ou mē construction by using “certainly not” in the formal and “never truly” in the dynamic to reflect the emphatic negation. |