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Then he turned back to Donald, and said, "Take the story of ... well, say the prodigal son, for an example. Was that the account of real happenings, think you?" "Of course not. Merely a parable." The other's mind reverted to the one which he himself had preached by letter to little "Smiles." "The Bible is filled with parables," said Mr. Talmadge, simply.
We have been contemplating one of the finest specimens of it that ever occurred in the world; and we are solemnly exhorted to the practice of it in the introductory passage to one of our Lord's parables "Men ought always to pray, and not to faint." Sometimes people are under the influence of very needless discouragements.
"No woman marries a leper by choice!" she said at last, slowly. He glanced at her, then shrugged his shoulders. "You talk in parables. Pardon me if I am too dull to understand you!" "You understand me well enough," she answered "But if you wish it, I will speak more plainly. I dream of love " "Most women do!" he interrupted her, smilingly "And I am sure you dream charmingly.
You can, at all events, consider with yourself a little, what empire this queen of the terrestrial sciences must hold over the rest, if they are to be put to good use; or what depth and breadth of application there is in the brief parables of the counted cost of Power, and number of Armies. To give a very minor, but characteristic, instance.
What is meant by Christ's constant references to the 'Mysteries of the Kingdom of God' by His frequent statement to His disciples that the full and true interpretation could be given only to them, and that to others He must speak in parables? Why does He perpetually use the technical terms connected with the well known mystery-teaching of antiquity? What does St.
His friends were agreed that what they remembered chiefly of his stories was not the broad part of them, but the moral that was in them. And they had no squeamishness as critics of the art of fable-making. His ethical sense of things, his companionableness, the utterly non-censorious cast of his mind, his power to evolve yarns into parables all these made him irresistible with a jury.
He then depicts the public ministry by grouping together, first, teachings of Jesus concerning the law of the kingdom of heaven, then a series of great miracles confirming the new doctrine, then the expansion of the ministry and deepening hostility of the Pharisees, leading to the teaching by parables, and the final withdrawal from Galilee to the north.
He spake three thousand parables, and five thousand songs, and disputed upon all manner trees and virtue of them, from the cedar that is in Lebanon unto the hissop that groweth on the wall, and discerned the properties of beasts, fowls, reptiles and fishes, and there came people from all regions of the world for to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
A question, on some of its sides difficult, meets us here, regarding the reason why the Lord employed parables in the prosecution of his ministry.
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in Me. JOHN xv. 14. WHAT suggested this lovely parable of the vine and the branches is equally unimportant and undiscoverable. Many guesses have been made, and, no doubt, as was the case with almost all our Lord's parables, some external object gave occasion for it.
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