Parable — Weighty sentences. Dark sayings — Not that the words are hard to be understood, but the things, God's transcendent goodness, their unparallel'd ingratitude; and their stupid ignorance and insensibleness, under such excellent teachings of God's word and works, are prodigious and hard to be believed. Of old — Of things done in ancient times.
Verse Psalms 78:2. _IN A PARABLE_] Or, I will give you _instruction_ by numerous _examples_; see Psalms 49:1, which bears a great similarity to this; and see the notes there. The term _parable_, in i...
I WILL OPEN MY MOUTH IN A PARABLE - See the notes at Psalms 49:4. The word “parable” here means a statement by analogy or comparison; that is, he would bring out what he had to say by a course of reas...
PSALM 78-83 Psalms 78 A Historical Retrospect _ 1. The call to hear (Psalms 78:1)_ 2. Ephraim's failure (Psalms 78:9) 3. His dealings in power and mercy ...
LXXVIII. THE LESSON OF ISRAEL'S HISTORY. The northern tribes have been perverse from the first. Their wickedness has culminated in the schismatical religion of the Samaritans. God, on the contrary, ha...
I WILL OPEN, &C. Quoted in Matthew 13:35. PARABLE... DARK SAYINGS. Compare Psalms 49:5. Same words. The Psalm has. moral: showing that Divine history contains more than appears on the surface....
The Psalmist's solemn invitation to his countrymen to listen to his teaching. He proposes to set forth the lessons to be drawn from Israel's past history, in obedience to God's command to hand on the...
Cp. the opening of Psalms 49, noting that while there -all peoples" are addressed, in accordance with the wider scope of the teaching of the -Wise Men," here Israel is addressed in the spirit of proph...
On the words _parable_and _darksayings_or _enigmas_see note on Psalms 49:4. The Psalmist has no mere narrative of facts to recount, but a history full of significance for those who can penetrate its h...
I WILL OPEN MY MOUTH IN A PARABLE— _I will open my mouth in a wise moral: I will utter mysteries of ancient times._ The moral or design of this history is couched in the subsequent verses. See Mudge....
PSALMS 78 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Didactic Poem, Counselling the Re-union of the Tribes. ANALYSIS Part I.THE PRELUDE (1) An Invitation to Attend to a Series of Problems Drawn from AntiquityPsalms 78:...
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: I WILL OPEN MY MOUTH IN A PARABLE ( maashaal (H4912)) - a similitude (see note, Psalms 49:4). I WILL UTTER - literally, sputte...
78:2 utter (f-11) As Psalms 19:2 ....
PARABLE] in the sense of 'didactic poem.' DARK SAYINGS] lit. 'riddles.' The history of Israel is an enigma, requiring an explanation such as the Psalmist gives. These two words occur together in Psalm...
This long historical Ps. may be compared with Psalms 105, 106, and with Deuteronomy 32. It traces the course of God's relations with His people from the exodus down to the time of David, and dwells on...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ TELL YOUR CHILDREN PSALMS 78 Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me. Do not stop them". (Matthew 19
I WILL OPEN. — A difficulty is started by the fact that the psalm deals with history, and is neither a proverb (_mâshal_) nor riddle (_chîdah_). But the Divine rejection of the northern tribes may be...
אֶפְתְּחָ֣ה בְ מָשָׁ֣ל פִּ֑י אַבִּ֥יעָה חִ֝ידֹ֗ות...
Psalms 78:1 THIS psalm is closely related to Psalms 105:1; Psalms 106:1; Psalms 107:1. Like them, it treats the history of Israel, and esp
LEARNING FROM THE FATHERS Psalms 78:1 This psalm is said to have arisen, from a strong controversy between Judah and Ephraim as to the location of God's sanctuary, and its final transfer within the l...
The supreme quantity of this psalm is that throughout all its measures, over against the repeated failure of His people God's persistent patience is set forth in bold relief. The purpose of the psalm,...
Saints. The Assideans, who were the most esteemed for piety, 1 Machabees ii. 42. In the worst of times, there were always some pious Israelites, and the generality of them were less wicked than their...
I beg the Reader's attention to what is here said, and, by way of rightly explaining it, to turn to what our Lord himself saith; Matthew 13:34. Have we not authority from hence to believe, that what A...
In Psalms 78 the conduct of Israel is discussed by wisdom, historically as regards the whole people, but with very important principles brought out. There was not only a redemption of old, to which fa...
I WILL OPEN MY MOUTH,.... Speak freely, boldly, and without reserve, Ephesians 6:19, so Christ opened his mouth, Matthew 5:2, IN A PARABLE; not that what follows in this psalm was such, but what were...
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: Ver. 2. _I will open my mouth in a parable_] I will speak freely and plainly (I will open my mouth, Mat 5:2 Act 10:34), and yet ac...
_Give ear, O my people_ In these words “the psalmist opens his commission, and speaks as one having authority from above to instruct the world. He demands a large and attentive audience, while, by a s...
I will open my mouth in a parable, in proverbial sayings; I WILL UTTER DARK SAYINGS OF OLD, make statements which would appear as oracles or riddles if unexplained, or if the application to present co...
A REVIEW OF ISRAEL'S HISTORY AS A SOURCE OF CONSOLATION. Maschil of Asaph, a didactic poem, intended to instruct the children of Israel in the wonderful ways of the Lord and to warn them against apos...
1-8 These are called dark and deep sayings, because they are carefully to be looked into. The law of God was given with a particular charge to teach it diligently to their children, that the church m...
OPEN MY MOUTH, speak to you with all freedom and plainness, in a parable; uttering divers and weighty sentences (for such are oft called PARABLES in Scripture) or passages of great moment for your ins...
Psalms 78:2 open H6605 (H8799) mouth H6310 parable H4912 utter H5042 (H8686) sayings H2420 old H6924 I
CONTENTS: Israel's sins wherewith they had provoked God. The tokens of God's displeasure as the result. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: God's people limit Him by forgetfulness of His benefits (Ps...
Title. _Maschil of Asaph._ Rabbi Kimchi says, that this title, which signifies to give instruction, designates also the species of music or melody to which the words were set, as is now the practice o...
_I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old._ THE NATURE AND DESIGN OF PARABOLIC TEACHING The word here translated parable did not probably convey to the mind of the psalmis...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; P
INTRODUCTION _Superscription,—“Maschil of Asaph_,” _i.e._, an instruction of Asaph, a didactic song by Asaph. The Psalm was probably written by the celebrated Asaph in the time of David. _Occasion_.—...
EXPOSITION This, the first of the "historical psalms," though assigned by the rationalistic school (De Wette, Ewald, Koster, Hitzig) to a period subsequent to the Captivity, is generally allowed by mo...
Psa 78:1-72 is a psalm that rehearses the history of God's people. And the psalm was written in order to remind the children, the coming generation, of the works of the Lord. One of the important obli...
Mark 4:34; Matthew 13:11; Matthew 13:13; Matthew 13:34; Matthew 13: