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2I will open{H8799)} my mouth in a parable: I will utter{H8686)} dark sayings of old:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: …
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. …
But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)These verses, which contain the preface to this history, show that the psalm answers the title; it is indeed Maschil—a psalm to give instruction ; if we receive not the instruction it gives, it is our own fault. Here, I. The psalmist demands attention to what he wrote (Ps. 78:1): Give ear, O my people! to my law . Some make these the psalmist’s words. David, as a king, or Asaph, in his name, as hi…
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