"Then," replied Mr. Anthon, "I cannot read a sealed book," upon which he recalled the certificate and tore it up. Martin Harris said to me, "At that time I was not aware that the Prophet Isaiah, in the twenty-ninth chapter of his writings, had predicted that those exact words would be uttered and the prophecy thus fulfilled by Prof. Anthon. For the better information of the reader we will refer to the book of Isaiah, beginning at the 11th and 12th verses, which reads as follows: "And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he said, I cannot, for it is sealed. And the book [not the words or seven lines of characters] is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. It is well known that Joseph Smith was not learned, and claimed to be only a farmer's boy without the opportunities for a scholastic education; for he had, as Peter the fisherman, to work for his living. Permit me to offer some striking evidence to show that the Prophet was not learned, by the word directly over the lines of characters. How natural it would be for a boy unlearned to leave out the silent h and further to substitute the o for the e, as it is written by his own hand, thus--Caractors. This I offer as evidence of the fulfillment of Isaiah's words, 29th chapter and 12th verse, "I am not learned." Well, indeed, may the prophet say in the same chapter: "Cry ye out, and cry; they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink." I ask what kind of drunkenness can this mean, unless as really inferred by Isaiah's own words: "For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered." At the time the book came forth there were upon the earth no prophets or seers to guide the people. There had been prophets from the time of Adam to Moses and from Moses to Jesus Christ, John the Revelator being the last prophet of that time, 96 AD. And the Book came forth and a new prophet arose after that long period, and at a time when people were drunken with confusion regarding the true religious light, for there were about six hundred different religious sects staggering against each other, each one claiming to be the true church that Christ established, with one lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father of all.