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“I know it,” Mary gasped. “Yes, yes, I know it now. It is in faith.” “And in abnegation of self.” The stone which stood before the sepulchre had rolled away. At her side the Christ stood. In his eyes were golden parables, in his face Truth shone revealed.
The purpose of the three parables in this chapter has to be kept in mind. Christ is vindicating His action in receiving sinners, which had evoked the murmurings of the Pharisees. The first two parables, those of the lost sheep and the lost drachma, appeal to the common feeling which attaches more importance to lost property just because it is lost than to that which is possessed safely.
And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we reply, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him? but if we say of men they feared the people: for all men held John to be in truth a prophet. And they answering said to Jesus, We do not know. And Jesus in reply said to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things. AND he began to speak to them in parables.
Such are the occasion, the places, the object, and the nature of the three parables which Jesus spoke that day in the Temple, and the Evangelist Matthew has recorded in this portion of the word. The first is the parable of
Here was the tree, the flower, the seed, from which he had taken his parables; there was the hill on which he delivered his most touching discourses; here was the little ship from which he taught. It was like the recommencement of a beautiful dream like a vanished illusion which had reappeared. The enchantment seemed to revive. The sweet Galilean "Kingdom of God" had recovered its sway.
You have got away from Him. Now, if you take that series of parables in Luke xv., and note the metaphors there, you will see three different sides given of the process by which men's hearts stray away from God. There is the sheep that wanders. That is partly conscious, and voluntary, but in a large measure simply yielding to inclination and temptation.
"You wimmen would ruther say that, than eat pound cake. Supposin' you did tell me, what's the upshot?" "That gimlet-eyed weasel is snuffing round you and me; but we won't turn out to be spring chickens, ready picked." "Which is to signify that Miss Angerline smells a mouse? Don't talk parables, Dyce. What's she done now?" "She is hankering after that hankchiff.
If you make use of scripture to contradict such plain and positive declarations, by explaining parables and doubtful sayings for that purpose, I entreat you candidly to consider whether you can do any thing more to the dishonour of the sacred word, or more pleasing to those who wish to bring the scriptures into disrepute.
Perhaps this silliness will make some think her not more an example of the savagery of contemporary criticism than a justification thereof. It was in fact not only brutal man who objected to the preposterous excesses of pseudo-romance: and serious or jocular parables were taken up against it, if not before Northanger Abbey was written, long before it was published.
Here might be seen the wealthy Christian ladies walking in the streets, their dresses embroidered with Scripture parables, the Gospels hanging from their necks by a golden chain, Maltese dogs with jewelled collars frisking round them, and slaves with parasols and fans trooping along. There might be seen the ever-trading, ever-thriving Jew, fresh from the wharves, or busy negotiating his loans.
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