If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

Ver. 12. If I have told you earthly things] That is, spiritual things under earthly gross similitudes, of wind, water, &c. In the mystery of Christ, the best of us are acute obtusi. But for the natural man, that cannot tell the nature of the wind, or enter into the depth of the flower or the grass, &c., how should he possibly have the wit to enter into the deep things of God, especially if darkly delivered?

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