Today the blind man will often have a specially marked cane that identifies him as a blind man. Blind Bartimaeus removed his coat when he received his sight. The coat may have marked him as a blind man. The Scriptures tell us that this man was blind from his birth. If we allow this blind man to picture the lost man, he does so in this way.
Every person born into the human race is born blind or lost.
Until the Lord opens his eyes he will remain in this lost state. The only one that can perform the miracle of sight is the Lord Jesus Christ. No one is capable of opening his own eyes or the eyes of another. Salvation is of the Lord. This always reminds me of D. L. Moody.