Mark 4:21, 22 And he said to them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?… I. THIS APPEARS FROM: 1. Its very nature. That which reveals (e.g. light) is not to be itself hidden. Its whole tendency is and has been towards greater manifestation. Each revelation of God has been grandee than that which preceded. 2. Its central significance in the Divine economy. It has evidently a practical relation to the whole, just as "the lamp" had to the peasant's room, as the general means of illumination. Everything in the world, in human lives, and in the constitution of the human soul answers to its interpreting light, which is the only true light by which they can be understood. 3. The existence in man of a faculty for its discernment. This may have been overlaid or perverted; but it really exists, and will answer to the believing effort to exercise it. It is Satan, not God, who has blinded the minds of those who are lost. II. HOW STRONG MUST HAVE BEEN THE REASONS FOR TEMPORARY CONCEALMENT! 1. The fearful wickedness of the contemporaries of Jesus. A last time with reference to many preceding stages of darkening spiritual consciousness. 2. The revelation of that wickedness in convicting it of ignorance of Divine things. 3. The preservation of the Personal Truth in human/Grin until his manifestation should be complete. - M. Parallel Verses KJV: And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? |
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