4. I will incline mine ear to a parable. He who
would have others hear begins by hearing himself. The truth came to the
psalmist as a parable, and he endeavored to unriddle it for popular use; he
would not leave the truth in obscurity, but he listened to its voice till he so
well understood it as to be able to interpret and translate it into the common
language. Still of necessity it would remain a problem, and a dark saying to
the unenlightened many, but this would not be the psalmist’s fault, for he
says, I will open my dark saying upon the harp. To win attention he cast
his proverbial philosophy into the form of song.
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