TSK · Proverbs 1:6

I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.

The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,

He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.