 | John Chappel Woodhouse - 1805 - 696 pages
...secret, among the ancient Jews, is apparent from Isaiah xxix. 11. where " men deliver a " sealed book to one that is learned, saying, Read this, " I pray thee, and be saith, I cannot, for it is " sealed §." The prophecies delivered to Daniel concerning Christ's... | |
 | John Pawson - 1809 - 434 pages
...faith in the Redeemer of mankind. Gap; of these ser.Hnons was upon Isa. xxix. II. And the yi*ioni.o»( all is become unto you as .the words of a book that is sealed, &c. in W:hich he pmved the necessity of divine OluminaLian, and that the scriptures are a sealed Book... | |
 | William Ettrick - 1810 - 524 pages
...closed jour eyes" says Isaiah, " the prophets* and your rulers, the seers •, bath he covered. And the vision of all is become unto you as the words...learned, saying read this I pray thee; and he saith, 1 'cannot ', for It is sealed. And the book it delivered to him that is not learned, say* ing, read... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 pages
...visions of God, and have left upon record, are as puzzling to the learned as to the illiterate. "And the vision of all is become unto you as the words...this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned." The scholar that could not read this book of visions was a man of human learning, and he complains... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pages
...cause they are spiritually discerned," 1 Cor. ii. 14. " And the vision of all is become unto you as a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that...learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, [ cannot, for it is sealed. Therefore, says God, I will proceed to do a marvellous work, and a wonder... | |
 | John Wesley - 1812 - 446 pages
...spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes : the prophets and the seers hath he covered ; and the vision of all is become unto you, as the words of a book that is sealed," (c. xxix. 10, 11.) Such also were those of whom he saith, " His watchmen are blind, they are all ignorant;... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1857 - 1220 pages
...condition in which both the learned and the unlearned are described by the prophet when he says — " The vision of all is become unto you as the words...this, I pray thee, and he saith, I am not learned." (Isaiah xxix. 11, 12.) These words are descriptive of what the Scriptures really are, as to a very... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pages
...sleep, and hath closed your eyes : the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. 1 1 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words...pray thee : and he saith, I cannot ; for it is sealed : 12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee : and he... | |
 | Samuel Clapham - 1815 - 708 pages
...might', it. .should seem, be! unto tfieiii as' * the " words of a book that is sealed, which when men cc deliver to one that is learned ; saying, read this, I " pray thee ;" he might be expected " to say, I can" not, for it is sealed. And when the book is deli" vered to... | |
 | John Brodhead Romeyn - 1816 - 456 pages
...powerful operations are experienced by us, we find that the testimony of God concerning Christ is like " the words of a book that is " sealed, which men deliver...I pray thee : " and he saith, I am not learned"'." The necessity of the illuminating and sanctifying operations of the Holy Spirit is revealed to us in... | |
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And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, 'Read this, I pray thee': and he saith, 'I cannot; for it is sealed.' "And the book is delivered to him that is not learned,... 
