And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
John Gill, commenting on this passage, writes, “Kimchi says was an excuse invented, because he had no mind to read it, or otherwise he could have said, open, and I will read it; or he might have broke off the seal; but knowing there were difficult things, and things hard to be understood, in it, did not care to look into it, and read it.”
In verse eleven, he will not read, claiming the book is closed to him, verse twelve, he will not read claiming he is unlearned.
And so it is with the Word of God. It is impossible to be grasped from the carnal nature, and those with what they believe to be wisdom often refuse to look into it.
The Bible is not difficult to read. Any fourth grader can read and understand the words. But the message is a supernatural one that frustrates the wise of this world and is senseless to the brute. It reveals itself only to those who can hear from the Spirit of God.
1 Corinthians 2:14 (KJV)
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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