For there is nothing hid , which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad .
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Gill's Exposition
And should sleep,.... That is, the man that casts in the seed, who represents the ministers of the Gospel: and, as applied to them, is not to be understood of natural sleep, and indulging themselves…
Barnes' Notes
There is nothing hid ... - See the notes at Mat 10:26.
Adam Clarke
For there is nothing hid, etc. - Probably our Lord means, that all that had hitherto been secret, relative to the salvation of a lost world, or only obscurely pointed out by types and sacrifices,…
The lessons which our Saviour designs to teach us here by parables and figurative expressions are these: -
I. That those who are good ought to consider the obligations they are under to do good; that…
The Explanation of the Parable
10. And when he was alone St Mark here anticipates what took place after the Saviour had "sent the multitudes away" and "gone into the house" (Mat 13:36).
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