Who [is] blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger [that] I sent? who [is] blind as [he that is] perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant?
Ver. 19. Who is blind, but my servant?] Who so blind as he that will not see? Israel was God's peculiar, and had the light of his law, yet were blind as beetles.
Or deaf, as my messenger?] The priests and Levites. Mal 2:7 Such were the Papist dolts till awakened by the Reformation.
Who is blind as he that is perfect?] The elders of the people, who arrogated to themselves perfection a Isa 65:5 Rom 2:17-20 as likewise the Popish perfectists, the Jewish doctors with their pretended Mashlamnuthas, and the Turkish Mussulmans - i.e., perfectionaries.
a Buxtorf. Tiber. p. 5.