Mystery of the kingdom; the deeper truths of the gospel, which had not before been revealed. Them that are without, Matthew 3:2; without the circle of his disciples. These remained in ignorance through the hardness of their hearts, and their rejection of the light. This made it proper that the Saviour should instruct the multitude by parables, into the meaning of which the candid and teachable would inquire, and thus be made wise to salvation, while the careless and indifferent would neglect them.

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