Ésaïe 29:14

14 A cause de cela, voici je continuerai à user de prodiges à l'égard de ce peuple, de miracles et de prodiges; la sagesse de ses sages périra, et l'intelligence de ses intelligents disparaîtra.

Ésaïe 29:14 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 29:14

Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work
among this people
Because of their hypocrisy and formality, their regard to men, their doctrines and commandments, and not to the will and word of God, therefore he determines "to deal marvellously with this people": [even] a marvellous work, and a wonder;
that is, something exceedingly marvellous, which would be matter of astonishment to everyone that observed it; and is as follows: for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding
of their prudent [men] shall be hid;
and be no more: this was eminently fulfilled in the wise men, the doctors and learned Rabbins of the Jews; and they themselves own ^F24, that, from the time the temple was destroyed, the wise men became like to Scribes, and the Scribes to those that looked after the synagogues, and these became like the common people, and they grew worse and worse: and Maimonides acknowledges ^F25, that this respects their present case; he says, when the Heathen princes destroyed their best things, took away their wisdom, and their books, and killed their wise men, they became ignorant and unlearned; which evil God threatened them for their iniquities, as is said in this passage: and also this had its accomplishment in the wise philosophers of the Gentiles; see ( 1 Corinthians 1:18-20 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Misna Sota, c. 9. sect. 15.
F25 More Nevochim, par. 2. c. 11. p. 212.

Ésaïe 29:14 In-Context

12 Ou qu'on donnerait à un homme ne sachant pas lire, en lui disant: Lis ceci! et qui répondrait: Je ne sais pas lire.

13 Et le Seigneur dit: Puisque ce peuple s'approche de moi de sa bouche, et qu'ils m'honorent de leurs lèvres, mais leur cœur est éloigné de moi; puisque la crainte qu'ils ont de moi n'est qu'un commandement enseigné par des hommes;

14 A cause de cela, voici je continuerai à user de prodiges à l'égard de ce peuple, de miracles et de prodiges; la sagesse de ses sages périra, et l'intelligence de ses intelligents disparaîtra.

15 Malheur à ceux qui cachent profondément leurs desseins, pour les dérober à l'Éternel, qui font leurs œuvres dans les ténèbres, et qui disent: Qui nous voit, et qui nous connaît?

16 Pervers que vous êtes, l'argile sera-t-elle estimée à l'égal du potier? tellement que l'ouvrage dise de celui qui l'a fait: Il ne m'a point fait; et que l'œuvre dise de l'ouvrier: Il n'y entend rien?