Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
A proverb
The words
General references
Bible References
A proverb
Matthew 13:10
And the disciples came up and said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables?
Mark 4:11
And he said to them, To you is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to them who are without, all things are done in parables,
Acts 8:30
And Philip, running up, heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and said, Dost thou then know what thou art reading of?
The words
Ecclesiastes 12:11
The words of the wise are as goads, and the collections of them as nails fastened in: they are given from one shepherd.
Dark
Psalm 49:4
I will incline mine ear to a parable, I will open my riddle upon the harp.
Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old,
Matthew 13:34
All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them,
Hebrews 5:14
but solid food belongs to full-grown men, who, on account of habit, have their senses exercised for distinguishing both good and evil.
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.
General references
Proverbs 2:9
Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity: every good path.