George Leo Haydock

Proposition. Hebrew, “riddle.” (Berthier) — The ancients delighted in parables, which required attention to discern the meaning, and thus people had the pleasures of ingenuity. Music often accompanied their precepts. (Strabo i. 12.) (Calmet) — Utile dulci. (Haydock) — The psalmist intimates, that he had attended the best masters, (Calmet) even the Holy Ghost. (St. Chrysostom) — He delivers the instructions which he had received from God, on the instrument of ten strings, to imply that we must keep the ten commandments. (Worthington) — He listens if the instrument be in tune. (Calmet)