Jesus said unto them, if ye were blind
And sensible of it, and knew yourselves to be blind, and were
desirous of light and knowledge,
ye would have no sin:
or your sin would not be so aggravated; it would not be imputed
to you; it would be pardoned and taken away from you: for the
sense cannot be, that their blindness would not have been
criminal, or they should have no sin in them, or any done by
them; only, that had this been barely their case, there would
have been some hope of them, that their sin might be forgiven,
and put away, and be no more; see ( 1 Timothy
1:13 ) ;
but now ye say we see;
they thought themselves to be wise and knowing, and stood in no
need of any illumination from him, but were obstinate and
hardened in their infidelity, and wilfully opposed and shut their
eyes against all the light and evidence of truth:
therefore your sin remaineth;
untaken away, yea, immoveable, or unpardonable; the guilt of it
abode upon them; nor was there any hope of its being removed from
them; owning that they saw, and yet believed not: sinning
wilfully against light and knowledge in rejecting Jesus, as the
Messiah, they sinned the sin against the Holy Ghost, which is
never forgiven. And so the Ethiopic version renders it, "your
error shall not be forgiven you"; see ( Matthew
12:32 ) .