Therefore] Seeing ye have profited so well, I advise you to teach others the same way that I have taught you. Ye must know for your selves and others, chap. 5. 14, 15.
every scribe] Ministers are compared to scribes, who used to teach the Jews, chap. 7. 29. Ezra 7:6; Ezra 7:11.
instructed into the kingdom of heaven] Fit to be a minister of the Gospel.
things new and old] Who lays up provisions of divers yeers, and brings them forth for the use of the family, according to severall occasions and appetites of those of the houshold, Son 7:13. so must a minister not onely teach the truth, but so, as may fit all mens capacities and conditions, 2 Timothy 2:15.