Eclectic Hearers
Mark 4:23-24
If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.…


Some can be content to hear all pleasant things, as the promises and mercies of God, but judgments and reproofs, threats and checks, these they cannot brook; like unto those who, in medicine, care only for a pleasant smell or appearance in the remedy, as pills rolled in gold, but have no regard for the efficacy of the physic. Some can willingly hear that which concerns other men and their sins, their lives and manners, but nothing touching themselves or their own sins; as men can willingly abide to hear of other men's deaths, but cannot abide to think of their own.

(R. Stock.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

WEB: If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."




Attention Given More to Worldly than Spiritual Things
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