Matthew 13:34, 35
May 20, 2011 05:26 AM done
**34**All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
35That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
- I will utter (ἐρεύξομαι)
- The verb, in which the sound corresponds to the sense (ereuxoma,), means originally to belch, to disgorge. Homer uses it of the sea surging against the shore ("Iliad," xvii., 265). Pindar of the eruption of Aetna ("Pyth.," i., 40). There seems to lie in the word a sense of full, impassioned utterance, as of a prophet.
- A typical, archetypical, and prefigurative element ran through the whole. The history of the dealings is one long Old Testament parable.Things long kept secret, and that were hidden indeed in the depths of the divine mind from before the foundation of the world, were involved in these dealings.The culmination was divinely intended, and hence the expression that it might be fulfilled" (Morison on Matthew).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
- 35. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying-(Ps 78:2, nearly as in the Septuagint).
- I will open my mouth in parables, &c.-Though the Psalm seems to contain only a summary of Israelitish history, the Psalmist himself calls it "a parable," and "dark sayings from of old"-as containing, underneath the history, truths for all time, not fully brought to light till the Gospel day.