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Mat_10:26-27. Οὖν ] inference from Mat_10:24-25 : since, from the relation in which, as my disciples, you stand to me as your Master, it cannot surprise you, but must only appear as a necessary participation in the same fate, if they persecute you.
The γάρ which follows, then, conjoins with the μὴ φοβ . αὐτ . a further awakening consideration—that, namely, which arises out of the victorious publicity which the gospel is destined to attain; whereupon is added, in Mat_10:27, the exhortation—an exhortation in keeping with this divine destiny of the gospel—to labour boldly and fearlessly as preachers of that which He communicates to them in private intercourse. This addition is the more emphatic from there being no connecting particle to introduce it. The thought, “elucescet tandem orbi vestra sinceritas,” which others (Chrysostom, Theophylact, Theodoret, Heracleon in Cramer’s Cat., Erasmus, Grotius, Beza) have found in Mat_10:26, as well as the reference to the judgment (Hilgenfeld), are equally at variance with the context, as seen in Mat_10:27. For the figurative contrasting of σκοτία and φῶς , in the case of λέγειν and such like, comp. Soph. Phil. 578, and Wunder in loc.; for εἰς τ . οὖς , also a common expression among classical writers for what is told in confidence, see Valckenaer, ad Eurip. Hipp. 932.