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The Net and the Store Room
NT252 Parables of Jesus (Parables Defined)
“A parable is a metaphor drawn from life, arresting the hearer by its vividness or strangeness, and leaving the mind in enough doubt about its significance to tease it into active thought.”-C.H.Dodd Parables of the Kingdom
NT252 Parables of Jesus (Tell It Slant)
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant; success in circuit lies, too bright for our infirm delight … The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.”
-Emily Dickenson
Well, how do parables work?
Again, they hide the truth from some, from foes who’ve rejected what they’ve seen, saying they did not see.
And so the word’s taken away, but they reveal it to others.
To whom?
To disciples.
To disciples who want to know what it means, who admit “I don’t know what it means” [and ask,] “Jesus, why are you speaking in parables?
What does it mean?”
And Jesus says, “I’ll tell you.
Parables, for disciples, are graphic.
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