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Mat 11:27. Πάντα, all things) Here our Lord changes the direction of His words, and accosts His human auditors. After His resurrection, He more expressly said that all things in heaven and in earth were delivered to Him; see ch. Mat 28:18; but in the present passage the same truth is implied; cf. Mat 11:25. All things are delivered unto Him; also the authority to reveal them. All things are delivered unto Him; and therefore all men. See Joh 13:3; Joh 17:2; 1Co 15:25; 1Co 15:27.-παρεδόθη, have been delivered) The Father reserved nothing for Himself which He did not give to the Son. Cf. Joh 13:3; Mat 28:18. The intimate relation of the Father and the Son is implied in Mat 11:25-27, Joh 6:39-40, and so throughout the Apocalypse. See my exposition of the Apocalypse, p. 65.-οὐδεὶς-οὐδὲ, no one-neither) On the order of the words, cf. Joh 8:19.-εἰ μὴ ὁ πατήρ, except the Father) He does not add, “and he to whomsoever the Father chooses to reveal Him,” because He has said that in Mat 11:25, and here He is teaching us what the Father has delivered to Him. The Holy Spirit is not excluded; He is not, however, mentioned here, because His office was not as yet so well known to men.-βούληται, may will) shall choose. To whom, however, He wishes to do so, is clear from the following verse.