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 the disciples, having come near, said to Him, "Wherefore dost Thou speak to them in parables?"
Mark 4:11
And He said to them, "To you has been given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those without all things are done in parables;
Acts 8:30
And Philip, having run near, heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you, then, understand what you are reading?"

Dark

Matthew 13:34
All these things Jesus spake to the multitudes in parables; and, without a parable, He was wont to speak nothing to them;
Hebrews 5:14
but solid food is for full-grown men, who by practice have their senses trained for the discernment both of good and evil.
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.