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Ver. 25. In like manner also, the works that are good are manifest, and those that are otherwise cannot be hid. The ôὰ before êáëὰ is evidently designed to give prominence to the quality of the actions as good; and this is best brought out in the English idiom by rendering, not the good works, but the works that are good. It is a general proposition, and is not to be limited to the some men immediately preceding, whose bad deeds done in secret ultimately come to light. Deeds fully deserving the name of good have a kind of self-evidencing character; they speak in a manner for themselves; and those which are of a different description, even though for a time, or under certain aspects, they may appear otherwise, will by and by be discovered in their true character. They cannot be hid—that is, when the searching light of God’s judgment is let in upon them; but the saying is strictly applicable only to that, and so confirms the view taken of the judgment in the preceding verse. But Christian men, of course, and especially Christian rulers, should, as far as they are called to act in such matters, be at pains to have the truth brought to light.