6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

None will attain to the Kingdom of God who have not done ALL they can to prepare and qualify themselves for it. This, and this alone, is the only reason we are given the great gift and privilege of Iife in the first place. We DARE not get sidetracked into anything passing and temporal.

"How can we escape (from sin and death) if we NEGLECT so great salvation?"

Bro Sulley 

7 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

"The evidence of the truth of all revelation is so constructed as to be quite sufficient for the humble and sincere who are ready to believe; while it is such as may be cavilled at by any who wish to disbelieve."

Bro Sulley

20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

Wisdom is honest and open - '...the righteous are bold as a lion. (28: 1)

A conceited philosophy on the one hand, and an utterly impoverished theology on the other, have given the world a colourless language, destitute of all truly nutritive elements.

The Spirit of God calls with great reason upon the sons of men to turn from their famine-stricken diet, to the fatness provided in the oracles of God, in which they may delight their souls; but the call is disregarded, the world is enamoured of its own ways and its own thoughts. In the language of Apocalyptic figure, it is drunk, and drunken men have no relish for wholesome food.

This dementedness shown in the universal taste for the starvation garbage of the natural man's philosophy will continue to prevail until the day of fat things, the day of the blessing of Abraham to all nations, shall be inaugurated by the man whom God hath appointed.

A few, however, amid the teeming millions will be found in wisdom's way when that day arrives. It is our privilege to have been invited to walk in this way. Let us hold fast well by this first lesson of wisdom;

"If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God." - Peter

Seasons 1: 50

22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

"That it is advantageous to "conceal a thing", while revealing it, is also manifest from experience. A riddle is proverbially more interesting than an aphorism. A parable stimulates discernment. A thing seen after the search provoked by obscurity is seen more clearly, than if exhibited in a plain and direct manner in the first instance..there is always an inkling of the meaning somewhere..a clue by which the secret can be unlocked,which those may find who are humbly anxious to find".

'More Seasons Of Comfort'-'Use of Similitudes by God'-p473/4.