Isaías 29:12

12 Y si se diere el libro al que no sabe leer, diciéndole: Lee ahora esto; él dirá, No sé leer

Isaías 29:12 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 29:12

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" ^F23, at once, immediately:

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, ( Matthew 11:25 Matthew 11:26 ) ( 22:29 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 (an) "nunc", Pagninus, Montanus.

Isaías 29:12 In-Context

10 Porque el SEÑOR extendió sobre vosotros espíritu de sueño, y cerró vuestros ojos; cubrió de sueño vuestros profetas, y vuestros principales videntes

11 Y es a vosotros toda visión como palabras de libro sellado, el cual si dieren al que sabe leer, y le dijeren: Lee ahora esto; él dirá: No puedo, porque está sellado

12 Y si se diere el libro al que no sabe leer, diciéndole: Lee ahora esto; él dirá, No sé leer

13 Dice, pues, el Señor: Porque este pueblo me sacrifica, y con sus labios me honra, mas su corazón se alejó de mí; y su culto con que me honra fue enseñado por mandamiento de hombres

14 por tanto, he aquí que yo volveré a hacer obra admirable entre este pueblo con un milagro espantoso; porque la sabiduría de sus sabios se perderá, y la prudencia de sus prudentes se desvanecerá