Psalm 78:2 (WEB)
I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
Fathers and councils · 9
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus II.6Book II
“…express themselves somewhere, when about to relate histories, in words like this, “I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter hard sayings of old;” and in another place, when offering up a prayer regarding the law as being obscure, and needing divine help for its comprehension, they offer up this prayer,…” — editor's note: Ps. lxxviii. 2.
Read the whole comment - Origen, Against Celsus IV.49Book IV
“I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter dark sayings of old, which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.”” — editor's note: Cf. Ps. lxxviii. 1–3.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“The reason why He spake in parables the Evangelist subjoins, saying, “That it might be fulfilled that was spoken by the Prophet, saying, I will open my mouth. in parables, I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world.” [Ps 78:2]” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
““I will open,” he saith, “in parables My mouth, I will declare propositions from the beginning” (ver. 2).” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom
““All these things spake Jesus unto the multitudes in parables, and without a parable spake He notunto them; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things that have been kept secretfrom the foundation of the world.”” — editor's note: Comp. Ps. lxxviii. 2.
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Tertullian
““I will open,” says He, “my mouth in a parable” (that is, in a similitude); “I will utter dark problems” (that is, I will set forth questions).” — editor's note: See Ps. lxxviii. 2.
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Clement of Alexandria
“I will open My mouth in parables, I will utter My problems from the beginning.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxviii. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“For prophecy says of Him: “He will open His mouth in parables, and will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxviii. 2.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
“That which David had foretold in the person of Christ, I will open my mouth in parables, (Ps. 78:2.) the Lord here fulfils; as it is said, And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable.” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 26
Cited together in Against Celsus II.6.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.12.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 13:34–35 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.12.
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 8:4–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 8:4–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 8:4–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 8:4–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 8:4–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 8:4–15 (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 8:4–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 8:4–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.12.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.12.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.12.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49.
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.