And with many such parables he spoke the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
And with many such parables He spake the word unto them, as they were able to hear it, that Isaiah , as they were worthy to hear, as Maldonatus says, from Bede and Euthymius. More simply and plainly, Theophylact and Franc. Lucas explain with such, i.e, common and easy parables, which all could understand, not with what was abstruse; so that they might take in their literal drift, and perceive that there was something heavenly and divine lying beneath the surface, although they did not comprehend each particular. Thus, by what was known of the parable they were stirred up by Christ to investigate what lay hid.
