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The mystery (to mustērion). See note on 1Co 2:7 for this interesting word from mustēs (initiate), from mueō, to wink, to blink. The Gnostics talked much of “mysteries.” Paul takes their very word (already in common use, Mat 13:11) and uses it for the gospel.
Which hath been hid (to apokekrummenon). Perfect passive articular participle from apokruptō, old verb, to hide, to conceal from (1Co 2:7; Eph 3:9).
But now it hath been manifested (nun de ephanerōthē). First aorist passive indicative of phaneroō, to make manifest (phaneros). The construction is suddenly changed (anacoluthon) from the participle to the finite verb.