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
Then the disciples came and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
Mark 4:11
And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables,
Acts 8:30
So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
The words
Ecclesiastes 12:11
The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd.
Dark
Psalm 49:4
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.
Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
Matthew 13:34
All these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without a parable.
Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
2 Peter 3:16
as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.
General references
Proverbs 2:9
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;