Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Isaiah 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.
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.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
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.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
12. The unlearned succeed nobetter than the learned, not from want of human learning, as theyfancy, but from not having the teaching of God (Isa 54:13;Jer 31:34; Joh 6:45;1Co 2:7-10; 1Jn 2:20).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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:
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, Mt 11:25.
w “nunc”, Pagninus, Montanus.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
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
a Acts and Mon, 865.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
I am not: Isa 29:18, Isa 28:12, Isa 28:13, Jer 5:4, Hos 4:6, Joh 7:15, Joh 7:16
Reciprocal: Luk 7:32 – are Luk 14:18 – all 1Co 14:16 – unlearned Rev 5:2 – Who