Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 13:12

"For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath." — Matthew 13:12 (ASV)

Those who had some understanding of spiritual truth would come to even clearer light, but those who lived willfully in the dark would, in the presence of light, become more and more bewildered and would gain nothing but the discovery that they did not know what they thought they knew.

An ignorant man going into a museum, or hearing a learned lecture, only feels like a greater fool. He learns nothing, because he is not able to comprehend the elementary terms of the science.

It is just so with carnal men. Spiritual truth blinds them rather than enlightens them.