Opening my mouth I will give out a story, even the dark sayings of old times;
I will put my teaching into a story; I will make my dark sayings clear with music.
What cause have I for fear in the days of evil, when the evil-doing of those who are working for my downfall is round about me?
To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
Let the things which are past come to your memory: for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like me;
And without a story he said nothing to them: but privately to his disciples he made all things clear.
Rooting them out of their land, in the heat of his wrath and passion, and driving them out into another land, as at this day.