“"I will open my mouth in parables": to you I will open what is closed to the Jews; to you I will open my mouth in parables. "And without a parable," it says, "he did not speak to them"; but to his own disciples he unfolded the parables in private. "I will open my mouth in parables": what I speak to those others outwar…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Homily 11, on Psalm 77
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2I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
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1Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
— Psalms 78:2 —
3Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.