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He took up, to wit, into his mouth; he expressed or spoke.
His parable, i.e. his oracular and prophetical speech; which he calls a parable, because of the weightiness of the matter, and the majesty and smartness of the expressions which is usual in parables.
From Aram; from Aram, Naharaim, or Mesopotamia, Deu_23:4. See Gen_10:22. Aram lay
towards the mountains of the east: the east was infamous for charmers or soothsayers, Isa_2:6.
Jacob; the posterity of Jacob, i.e. Israel, as it here follows.