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Isaiah 29:12

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Him that is not learned; i.e. "that cannot read writing." Even in our Lord's day the ordinary Jew was not taught to read and write. Hence the surprise of the rulers at his teaching the people out of the Law (John 7:15, "How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?"

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