Zechariah 4:5

Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me ,.... Either to upbraid him with his ignorance and stupidity; or rather to quicken his attention, and that of others, to the interpretation of it he was about to give him:

Knowest thou not what these be ? art thou ignorant of the design of them? or knowest thou not what is meant by them?

and I said, No, my lord ; he made an ingenuous confession of his ignorance, joined with great respect unto, and veneration of, the angel that conversed with him.