Undoubtedly the priests of Noah were men of learning and intellect, yet they had no wisdom, no understanding of the heart. in this they were typical of many who reject the gospel while professing to accept it. In our day it was of professors of religion that the Lord said, “They draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof” (Joseph Smith History 1:19). Describing those of his own day who rejected him, the Savior needed only to repeat what had been said of the people of isaiah’s day: “For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them” (Matthew 13:15; Isaiah 6:9-10).