Matthew 13:11-12 He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.… In the world among men it is commonly observed that it never rains "but it pours. Where you see a sheep there is generally a flock. Money makes money. Poverty remains poor. Want of capital brings bankruptcy. A company starts on imaginary or borrowed capital: it makes a fuss and a noise, but it never prospers. By-and-by it breaks up, and. all is lost, and yet it never had anything of its own to lose: thus it verifies to the letter the truth — "whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath." Ordinarily, prosperity is a hen which likes to lay where there is a nest egg, and when one swallow of success conies others will follow it. Certainly we have found it so in the things of grace; where grace has been given more grace comes; spiritual capital well worked multiplies the stock, and spiritual wealth is realized where there is a solid basis to begin upon. (C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. |
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