The Believer
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[40:83]
for when their apostles came to them with all evidence of the truth, they arrogantly exulted in whatever knowledge they [already] possessed: and [so, in the end,] they were overwhelmed by the very thing which they were wont to deride.

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* v.83 : I.e., they were fully satisfied with their own empirically or speculatively acquired or inherited knowledge; and so, in their arrogant conviction that man is “self-sufficient” and, therefore, not in need of any guidance by a Power beyond the reach of human perception, they rejected whatever ethical and spiritual truths were offered them by the prophets.
* I.e., the idea of God’s existence and inescapable judgment: see 6:10 and the corresponding note 9.