* Doth.
   Is it not his usual custom to deal in enigmas?  His figures
   are not to be understood; we should not trouble ourselves with
   them.  God therefore commands the prophet to declare, in the
   next chapter, the same things in the plainest terms, so that
   they should not complain of his parables.

  Mt 13:13,14  Joh 16:25  Ac 17:18