Ésaïe 29:12

12 Ou comme un livre que l'on donne A un homme qui ne sait pas lire, en disant: Lis donc cela! Et qui répond: Je ne sais pas lire.

Ésaïe 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.

Ésaïe 29:12 In-Context

10 Car l'Eternel a répandu sur vous un esprit d'assoupissement; Il a fermé vos yeux les prophètes, Il a voilé vos têtes les voyants.

11 Toute la révélation est pour vous comme les mots d'un livre cacheté Que l'on donne à un homme qui sait lire, en disant: Lis donc cela! Et qui répond: Je ne le puis, Car il est cacheté;

12 Ou comme un livre que l'on donne A un homme qui ne sait pas lire, en disant: Lis donc cela! Et qui répond: Je ne sais pas lire.

13 Le Seigneur dit: Quand ce peuple s'approche de moi, Il m'honore de la bouche et des lèvres; Mais son coeur est éloigné de moi, Et la crainte qu'il a de moi N'est qu'un précepte de tradition humaine.

14 C'est pourquoi je frapperai encore ce peuple Par des prodiges et des miracles; Et la sagesse de ses sages périra, Et l'intelligence de ses hommes intelligents disparaîtra.