And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of
the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. Matthew 13:11 ESV
"The unspiritual ecclesiastics were baffled by the mystic symbolism of
the prophetic books of Daniel and John.
the prophetic books of Daniel and John.
But this obscurity served as a
divinely appointed means of preserving the prophetic word."
A.G. Daniells