Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 78:2

2 I will open my mouth in a parable : I will utter dark sayings of old :

Speak to you with all Freedom and Plainness.

Uttering divers grave and weighty Sentences (for such are oft called Parables in Scripture) or passages of great moment for your Instruction and advantage.

So he calls the following passages, not because the Words and Sentences are in themselves hard to be undestood, for they are generally Historical and easie, but because the things contained in them, concerning God's Transscendant Goodness to an unworthy People, and their unparallel'd ingratitude, for and abuse of such eminent Favours; and their stupid Ignorance and insensibleness, under such excellent and constant Teachings of God's Word and Works, are indeed prodigious and hard to be believed.

Of things done in Antient times, and in a great measure worn out of mens Minds.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 span].