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All vision is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I can`t, for it is sealed:
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
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)…
19th Century
Anglican
The vision of all ... —Better, the whole vision, i.e., the entire substance of Isaiah’s teaching. The words perhaps imply…
16th Century
Protestant
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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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the vision of all is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed
The pr…
The complacency of sinners in sinful ways, is a cause for lamentation and wonder. The learned, through prejudice, said that the Divine prophecies w…
13th Century
Catholic
Woe to Ariel. In this part, he presents a threat against the people or against the city, and this is divided into two parts.
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