...We shall perceive, that the parallel passage in St. Luke, literally taken, is full of incongruity : "that, seeing, they might not see, and hearing, they might not understand ;" so that here a literal interpretation cannot be admitted, since it is manifestly impossible that...

...advantages may not improperly be compared with theirs. He said to them, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God ; but to others in parables. To us the mystery of redemption is revealed ; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world...

...ears to hear, let him hear. 9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be ? 10 of repairing a previous neglect of salvation, when...lesson intended to be conveyed. 360 AD 33, 3G1 7 Then 1 1 c Now the parable is this : The seed is the word of God. 12 Those by the way side are they that...

...it is a hope thatmaketh not ashamed. O, the distinguishing grace of God! To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to others in parables. But light is put into you, as we put a candle in a candlestick, that it may give light to all that...

...God ; but to the rest in parables, that seeing they may not see, and hearing may not understand. 11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 12 And they by the way side are they that hear, then the devil cometh and taketh the word out of their...

...said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now ; but thou shalt know hereafter." John. xiii. 7. t " And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries...might not see, and hearing they might not understand." Luke viii. 10. t " For he was wiser than all men ; than Ethan the Eirahite and skilful in their arrangement,...

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...the kingdom of God; but to the rest in parables, that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. And they by the way side are they that hear; then the devil cometh, and taketh the word out of their...

...verse ; yet, as St. Luke viii. 10, thus records our Lord's declaration, " unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to others in parables ;" (comp. Mark iv. 11, note,) the meaning may be, that Jesus, for the moat part, revealed the truths...