28.  Then Manes answers him:  “And what sort of God causes blindness?  For it is Paul who saith, In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the Gospel should shine unto them 2 Cor. iv. 4, νοήματα, “thoughts.”.”  But Archelaus made a good retort, saying, “Read a little before:  But if our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that are perishing 2 Cor. iv. 3..  Seest thou that in them that are perishing it is veiled?  For it is not right to give the things which are holy unto the dogs Matt. vii. 6..  Again, Is it only the God of the Old Testament that hath blinded the minds of them that believe not?  Hath not Jesus Himself said, For this cause speak I unto them in parables, that seeing they may not see Matt. xiii. 13.  Both A.V. and R.V. follow the better reading:  “because seeing they see not, &c.”?  Was it from hating them that He wished them not to see?  Or because of their unworthiness, since their eyes they had closed Matt. xiii. 15..  For where there is wilful wickedness, there is also a withholding of grace:  for to him that hath shall be given; but from him that hath not shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have Ib. xxv. 29; Luke viii. 18..