Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.

And the angel that spoke in me answered, and said to me: Knowest thou not what these things are? And I said: No, my lord.

And the messenger who is speaking with me answereth and saith unto me, 'Hast thou not known what these are?' And I say, 'No, my lord.'

Then the angel who was talking to me, answering me, said, Have you no knowledge of what these are? And I said, No, my lord.

And the angel who was speaking with me answered, and he said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord."

Et respondit angelus, qui loquebatur mecum, et dixit mihi, Annon cognoscis quid sint haec? Et dixi, Non, Domine mi.

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.

Knowest thou not, &c.--Not a reproof of his ignorance, but a stimulus to reflection on the mystery.
No, my lord--ingenious confession of ignorance; as a little child he casts himself for instruction at the feet of the Lord.