Proverbs 1:6

“…suggests to the readers of this book “the turn of the saying,” that thereby they may “understand a parable and a dark saying, words of the wise and riddles.”” — editor's note: Prov. i. 6 (LXX.).

“It is not a dark saying but a divine mystery.” — editor's note: Scripture is full of mysteries, but they are mysteries of fact, not of words. Its dark sayings or ænigmata are such, because in the nature of things they…

“…it is a dark saying; but ‘a man of understanding,’ says he, ‘shall understand a proverb and the interpretation, the words of the wise and their dark sayings.’” — editor's note: Prov. i. 5, 6.

“In the commencement of the book of Proverbs he charges us to understand prudent maxims and shrewd adages, parables and obscure discourse, the words of the wise and their dark sayings; all of which belong by right to the sphere of the dialectician and the philosopher.” — editor's note: Prov. i. 1–6.

““For the wise man,” who has been persuaded to obey the commandments, “having heard these things, will become wiser” by knowledge; and “the intelligent man will acquire rule, and will understand a parable and a dark word, the sayings and enigmas of the wise.”” — editor's note: Prov. i. 2–6.

“All then, in a word, who have spoken of divine things, both Barbarians and Greeks, have veiled the first principles of things, and delivered the truth in enigmas, and symbols, and allegories, and metaphors, and such like tropes.” — editor's note: [Prov. i. 6.]

“And the intelligent man will acquire rule, and will understand a parable and a dark saying, the words and enigmas of the wise.”” — editor's note: Prov. i. 5, 6. [Elucidation IX.]