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17. οὐ γάρ ἐστιν κρυπτόν. This verse, like the parallel (which occurs in a different connexion in Mat 10:26), is usually quoted of the discovery of secret crimes. The truth which would in that case be illustrated is often mentioned elsewhere in Scripture (1Co 4:5), but here in both instances the context shews that the first meaning of Christ was entirely different from this. He is not thinking of the discovery of crimes, but of the right use and further dissemination of Divine light. The truths now revealed privately to faithful hearers, and only dimly shadowed forth to others, should soon be flashed over all the world. Parables first yielded their full significance to the disciples, but found “a springing and germinant fulfilment in every age.”
ὃ οὐ μὴ γνωσθῇ καὶ εἰς φανερὸν ἔλθῃ. This is the reading of אBL. According to Winer, p. 375, it is the only passage in the N.T. in which the subjunctive, and not the indicative, is used after phrases like οὐδείς ἐστιν ὅς. The future indicative (γενήσεται) precedes the subjunctive, in almost the same sense, as frequently in Homer.