I will open my mouth in a parable, unfold the puzzling events of the past.
My mouth shall speak words of wisdom, my heart shall offer insights.
I will turn my ear to a riddle, expound my question on a lyre.
To comprehend proverb and byword, the words of the wise and their riddles.
remember the former things, those long ago: I am God, there is no other; I am God, there is none like me.
Without parables he did not speak to them, but to his own disciples he explained everything in private. The Calming of a Storm at Sea.
The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things are for us and for our children forever, to observe all the words of this law.