22. O'j yap sari ri xpwrrov — ovdt eyivero a-rox^u^o^ for tliere is nothing hidden — nor has anything become concealed) There is a difference both in the verbs is, implying that it was so natu rally, and has become, implying intentional concealment, and also in the nouns [adjectives] used ; comp. xpwnva, 1 Cor. iv. 5, and avoxpupoi, Col. ii. 3 ;* to which corresponds the difference which is made in the corresponding antithesis, between tpavepcady, be manifested, and iXfy ti$ tpavtfiv, come to be manifested ; the former referring to manifestation by constraint, the latter to manifestation of its own accord, when it is ripe for manifestation. Therefore the former sentence can be understood of what is bad, the second sentence of what is good. This axiom holds good of the things in nature, of the feelings and actions of men, whether good or bad, in a natural condition or in a spiritual condition ; as also of the divine mysteries. — eyevsro, has become [" was kept," Engl. Vers.]) The subject is -ri, anything, to be repeated from the previous sentence : the predicate is, hidden out of sight, airoxpvtpw. — '&&$, come) of its own accord ; comp. John iii. 21. This is done in successive stages in this present order of things ; and it shall be done fully, when the light shall make manifest all secrets on the last day ; 1 Cor. iv. 5.
23. E/' TIC,, if any man) Therefore it is not every one that hath them.
24. BASTETE ri axovzn, See [take heed~\, what ye hear) The seeing organ, which is the more noble sense, directs and modifies the impressions of the hearing : it is the eye, not the ear, that can move itself. — ri, ^vhat) We are hearing the word, which is the word of God ; account that as a high privilege : Or else the what is to be resolved into the Iwiv of Luke : see to it, what kind of a hearing you render to the word. — sv £ {tirpu, with ivhat measure) The measure alluded to is the heart, with its capabilities, desires, anxiety to impart blessings received to others, and obedience — vpogrt&rjetrai, it shall be added [more shall be given]) That ye may be not only hearers, but par takers. — ™?i) as concerns the hearers ;2 comp. on Rom. ii. 8, as
1 So Latin conditus, ' hidden,' whether undesignedly or otherwise : absconditus, "hidden out of sight," by design. — ED.
3 The margin of both editions had left the reader to decide as to the