TSK · Proverbs 1:6

I will learn a song that imparts wisdom; I will then sing my insightful song to the accompaniment of a harp.

The words of the sages are like prods, and the collected sayings are like firmly fixed nails; they are given by one shepherd.

The Purpose of Parables Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds; he did not speak to them without a parable.

He said to them,“The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those outside, everything is in parables,

So Philip ran up to it and heard the man reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked him,“Do you understand what you’re reading?”

speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.