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In Isaiah, people mock teaching suited to children just weaned. In 3 Enoch, Metatron teaches children who died in infancy, giving the prophet's question a new answer about education continuing after death.
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Isaiah 28:9
Hebrew Bible
6 He will give discernment to the one who makes judicial decisions and strength to those who defend the city from attackers. 7 Even these men stagger because of wine; they stumble around because of beer—priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions. 8 Indeed, all the tables are covered with vomit, with filth, leaving no clean place. 9 Who is the Lord trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? To those just weaned from milk! To those just taken from their mother’s breast!
3 Enoch 48C:12
Hebrew Book of Enoch
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
And not only that but Metatron sits three hours every day in the high heavens, and he gathers all the souls of those dead who died in their mother's womb, and the sucklings who died on their mother's breasts, and of the scholars who died over the five books of the Law. And he brings them under the Throne of Glory and places them in companies, divisions and classes round the Presence: and he teaches them the Law, and (the books) of Wisdom, and Haggada and Tradition and finishes (completes) their instruction (education) [for them]. As it is written (Is. xxviii. 9): "Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand tradition? them that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts".
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Notes and References
“... As in the previously analyzed passages from b. H9ag. 15a and Synopse §20
(3 Enoch 16), the narratives from b. Avod. Zar. and the additional chapter of
Sefer Hekhalot are obviously interconnected. H. Odeberg notes that in both
passages Isa 28:9 is used for scriptural support.88 It is also significant that
both passages again refer to Metatron as the one who has a seat in heaven, ...”
* The use of references are not endorsements of their contents. Please read the entirety of the provided reference(s) to understand the author's full intentions regarding the use of these texts.
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