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A Book Sealed by Blindness
Commentators explain that the "sealed book" is a metaphor for spiritual blindness. The issue isn't that God's Word is inherently obscure, but that the people, both educated and uneducated, are unable to comprehend its meaning. They possess the scriptures but lack the spiritual understanding to receive the message.
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Isaiah
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Albert Barnes
On Isaiah 29:11
18th Century
Theologian
And the vision of all - The vision of all the prophets; that is, all the revelations which God has given to you (see the note at Isaiah 1:1)…
Charles Ellicott
On Isaiah 29:11
19th Century
Bishop
The vision of all ... —Better, the whole vision, i.e., the entire substance of Isaiah’s teaching. The words perhaps imply…
John Calvin
On Isaiah 29:11
16th Century
Theologian
Therefore every vision has become to you. The Prophet expresses still more clearly what he had previously said, that the blindness of the …
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John Gill
On Isaiah 29:11
17th Century
Pastor
And the vision of all is become to you as the words of a
book that is sealed
The pr…
Matthew Henry
On Isaiah 29:9–16
17th Century
Minister
The complacency of sinners in sinful ways, is a cause for lamentation and wonder. The learned, through prejudice, said that the Divine prophecies w…