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Carregando... Notes on the Parables of Our Lordde Richard Chenevix Trench
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Trench gives his own interpretations of the parables, and compares them to those made by others. Parables are presented in the order found in the Bible. Twin Brooks Series. 211 p. Extensive notes at the back of the book. ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. 01? OTHER PARABLES BESIDES THOSE IN THE SCRIPTURES. THE most perfect specimens of this form of composition, and those by which the comparative value of all other in the like kind is to be measured, must be sought in that Book which is the most perfect of all books; yet they do not belong exclusively to it. The parable, as St. Jerome has noted, is among the favourite vehicles for conveying moral truth throughout all the East. Our Lord took possession of it, honoured it by making it his own, by using it as the vehicle for the highest truth of all. But there were parables before the parables which issued from his lips. It belongs to our subject to say something concerning those, which, though they did not give the pattern to, yet preceded his?concerning those also which were formed more or less immediately on the suggestion and in imitation of his, on the Jewish, that is, and the Christian. The Jewish parables will occupy us first. Some, indeed, have denied, but in the face of facts too evident to be explained away, that this method of teaching by parables was current among the Jews before our Saviour's time. They have feared, it would seem, lest it should detract from his glory to suppose that He had availed Himself of a manner of teaching in use already. Yet surely theanxiety to cut off the Lord's teaching from all living connexion with his age and country is very idle; and the suspicion with which parallels from the uninspired Jewish writings have been regarded is altogether misplaced. It is the same anxiety which would cut off the Mosaic legislation and institutions altogether from Egypt;1 which cannot with honesty be done, and which, in truth, there is no object whatever in attempting. For if Christianity be indeed the world-religion, it must gather into one... Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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