A Lack Of Understanding

Et ait illis: Nescitis parabolam hanc? et quomodo omnes parabolas cognoscetis? Secundum est, in quo increpat ruditatem cordis eorum.Nescitis parabolam hanc? Ac si dicat: Hoc est mirum post tot documenta suscepta, post tot miracula visa, post tot testimonia adhibita. Matth. xv: Adhuc et vos sine intellectu estis? Ad Hebr. v: Cum deberetis magistri esse propter tempus, rursus indigetis ut vos doceamini quae sint elementa exordii sermonum Dei: et facti estis quibus lacte opus sit, et non solido cibo. Et quomodo omnes parabolas cognoscetis? cum istam quae facilior est inter alias, et seipsam offert ad interpretationem, non intelligitis. Vos enim magistri esse debetis aliorum: et ideo capaciori sensu, perfectiora intelligere deberetis. Joan. iii: Tu es magister in Israel, et haec ignoras? Sanctus Albertus Magnus, Commentarium In Evangelium Divi Marci, Caput IV Source: Here p42

And He said to them, 'Do you not understand this parable? How shall you understand all the parables?' 1 Secondly He reproves the sluggishness of their hearts. 'Do you not understand this parable?' As if He said, 'This is indeed a wonder after all you have witnessed, after all the miracles you have seen, after all the testimony given.' In the fifteenth chapter of Matthew, 'Are you still without understanding?' In the fifth chapter of Hebrews, 'When you should be teachers according to your age, again you are so deficient that you must be taught the elements of the beginning of the word of God, and you have become as those who are in need of milk and not solid food.' 2 'And how will you understand all the parables?' When you do not understand this one that is the easiest to understand among all the other ones, and offers itself for interpretation? In the third chapter of John, 'You are a teacher in Israel, and you do not know these things?' 3 Saint Albert The Great, Commentary On The Gospel of St Mark, Chapter 4 1 Mk 4.13 2 Mt 15.16, Heb 5.12 3 Jn 3.10