“He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:”
The final condemnation—'They do not know, nor do they comprehend; for their eyes are shut, so that they cannot see, and their minds as well, so that they cannot understand'—attributes idolatry to spiritual blindness. The double assertion of ignorance and incomprehension suggests that idolatry is not merely error but spiritual dysfunction. The inability to 'see' or 'understand' echoes the servant song's language about Israel's blindness, connecting idolatry to spiritual pathology. This verse suggests that idolatry requires the suspension of human cognitive capacity.
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