Luke 8:10

And he said This verse is rather an answer to the other question, recorded in St Matthew, "whydost thou speak to them in parables?"

it is given Rather, it has been given.

to know the mysteries i.e. to grasp the revealed secrets, the -apples of gold" hid in these -networks of silver." The proper use of the word -mystery" is the opposite of its current use. It is now generally used to imply something which we cannot understand; in the New Testament it always means something oncehidden now revealed, Colossians 1:26; 1 Timothy 3:16; Matthew 11:25-26; Revelation 17:5, &c. It is derived from μύω ),-I initiate." "God is a revealer of secrets," Daniel 2:47.

"What if earth

Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein

Each to the other like, more than on earth is thought?"

Milton.

to others Rather, to the rest; "to them that are without," Mark 4.