and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t read.”
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and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t read.”
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And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
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and the writing is delivered to him that is not learned, saying: 'Read this, I pray thee'; and he saith: 'I am not learned.'
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Passages linked to Isaiah 29:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- John 7:15-16 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?” Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
- Isaiah 29:18 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
- Isaiah 28:12-13 to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear. Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.
- Jeremiah 5:4 Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God.
- Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 29:12 And the book is delivered to him…
Isa 29:12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
Ver. 12. And the book is delivered to one that is not learned.] Heb., Knoweth not to read. By the learned is meant, say some, the rulers in Church and State; by the unlearned, the common people: all were in a pickle. Nicodemus had oft read in this our prophet, in Ezekiel and elsewhere, of regeneration, though not under that term; but how little he understood it, see Joh 3:4; Joh 3:9 And what a buzzard is Bellarmine himself in some such fundamentals as whereof it is a shame for a very child to be ignorant! I must needs confess, said a learned Papist to the Bishop of Cavaillon, that I have often been at the schools of Sorbonne in Paris, where I have heard the disputations of the divines, but yet I never learned so much as I have done by hearing these young children at Merindol posing one another before the bishop about points of religion. The poor men of Lyons in France were enlightened when the great doctors were blinded and besotted in their superstitious tenets and practices. {a}
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{a} Acts and Mon, 865.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The vision of all; of all your prophets, whether…
The vision of all; of all your prophets, whether the true or false ones. As the words of a book that is sealed; in which no man can read whilst it is scaled up, as books then sometimes were, 1Ki 21:8; Est 3:12,13, being made in the form of rolls, which was convenient for that purpose.
The book is delivered to him that is not learned; unsealed and opened, as the following clause implies. God so orders the manner of delivering this book, that neither the learned nor unlearned could read and understand it.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the book is delivered to him that is…
And the book is delivered to him that is not learned,.... Or that knows not a book or letters, as before, and so consequently cannot read, having never been put to school, or learned to read:
saying, Read this, I pray thee; or "now" (w), at once, immediately:
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and he saith, I am not learned; he does not excuse himself on account of its being sealed, but on account of his want of learning; which shows the former was but an excuse. In short, the sum of it is this, that neither the learned nor unlearned, among the Jews, cared to read their Bibles, or to search the Scriptures, and the prophecies in them, concerning the Messiah, and that neither of them understood them; these things were hid from the wise and prudent, as well as from the ignorant and unlearned of the people, in common, and were only made known to a few babes and sucklings. There was great ignorance of the Scriptures in the times of Christ, to which these passages truly belong, Mat 11:25.
(w) "nunc", Pagninus, Montanus.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Of all - Of all, your prophets. As a…
Of all - Of all, your prophets. As a book - In which no man can read, while it is sealed up, as books then sometimes were, being made in the form of rolls. Delivered - Unsealed and opened.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain And the book is delivered ... - That is,…
And the book is delivered ... - That is, they are just as ignorant of the true nature and meaning of the revelations of God as a man is of the contents of a book who is utterly unable to read.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain The unlearned succeed no better than the learned, not…
The unlearned succeed no better than the learned, not from want of human learning, as they fancy, but from not having the teaching of God (Isa 54:13; Jer 31:34; Joh 6:45; Co1 2:7-10; Jo1 2:20).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Him that is not learned; i.e. "that cannot read…
Him that is not learned; i.e. "that cannot read writing." Even in our Lord"s day the ordinary Jew was not taught to read and write. Hence the surprise of the rulers at his teaching the people out of the Law. (Joh_7:15, "How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
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