Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

Bible References

A proverb

Matthew 13:10
And His disciples coming, said to Him; Wherefore do you speak to them in parables?
Mark 4:11
And He said to them, To you it has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to them who are without, all things are in parables:
Acts 8:30
And Philip running forth, heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said; Whether do you understand what you are reading?

Dark

Matthew 13:34
Jesus spoke all of these things to the multitudes in parables; and without a parable He was not speaking to them:
Hebrews 5:14
but solid food belongs to the perfect, those having their senses disciplined by use unto the discernment both of the good and the evil.
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all his epistles, speaking in the same concerning these things; in which there are some things hard to understand, which the unlearned and unestablished wrest, as they also do the other scriptures, to their own destruction.