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Mar_4:24-25. Comp. Luk_8:18.
βλέπετε ] Be heedful as to what ye hear; how important it is rightly to understand what is delivered to you by me!
ἐν ᾧ μέτρῳ κ . τ . λ .] A ground of encouragement to heedfulness. It is otherwise in Mat_7:2. In our passage the relation of heedfulness to the knowledge thereby to be attained is described. Euthymius Zigabenus well says: ἐν ᾧ μέτρῳ μετρεῖτε τὴν προσοχὴν , ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ μετρηθήσεται ὑμῖν ἡ γνῶσις , τουτέστιν · ὅσην εἰσφέρετε προσοχὴν , τοσαύτη παραχεθήσεται ὑμῖν γνῶσις , καὶ οὐ μόνον ἐν τῷ τοσαύτη παρασχεθήσεται ὑμῖν γνῶσις , καὶ οὐ μόνον ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ μέτρῳ , ἀλλὰ καὶ πλέον .
Mar_4:25. Reason assigned for the foregoing καὶ προστεθήσεται . The application of the proverbial saying (comp. Mat_13:12; Mat_25:29) is: For if ye (through heedfulness) have become rich in knowledge, ye shall continually receive still larger accession to this riches (that is just the προσ τεθήσεται ); but if ye (through heedlessness) are poor in knowledge, ye shall also lose even your little knowledge. Euthymius Zigabenus erroneously refers δοθήσεται only to the γνῶσις , and ἔχῃ to the προσοχήν . So also Theophylact.