Ezekiel 12
EDTEzekiel 12:1-28
It is as easy to close the eyes of the mind as those of the body; and the former is more frequently done with wilfulness, and yet not attended to, than the latter; the actions of the mind being more quick and transient than those of the senses.
Butler.
The one Enemy we have in this Universe is Stupidity, Darkness of Mind; of which darkness, again there are many sources, every * sin* a source, and probably self-conceit the chief source. Darkness of mind, in every kind and variety, does to a really tragic extent abound; but of all the kinds of Darkness, surely the Pedant Darkness, which asserts and believes itself to be * light,* is the most formidable to mankind! For empires or for individuals there is but one class of men to be trembled at; and that is the Stupid Class, the class that cannot see, who alas! are they mainly that will not see.
Carlyle, * Latter-day Pamphlets,* III.
References. XII. 27. Spurgeon, * Sermons,* vol. xx. No. 1164; see also * Twelve Sermons to Young Men,* p. 169. A. Maclaren, * Expositions of Holy Scripture* * Ezekiel,* p. 10.