|The prophets of old packed away the mystery. <ref>[[What is the mystery?]]</ref> <ref name="Pr 25:2">[[Pr 25:2]] [It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter.</ref>. As they wrote, God concealed the mystery in their words using prophetic riddles. <ref>[[What are phophetic prophetic riddles?]]</ref> <ref>[[Ps 78:2]] I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings [riddles] of old:</ref>