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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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substance. In <strong>the</strong> first <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se classes a scene from<br />

nature or from life serves as basis for exhibiting<br />

<strong>the</strong> corresponding spiritual reality. In <strong>the</strong> latter,<br />

what is related serves as type (rvw<strong>of</strong>), not in <strong>the</strong><br />

ordinary sense <strong>of</strong> that term, but in that not<br />

unfrequent in Scripture: as example—whe<strong>the</strong>r for<br />

imitation, or in warning." In - pmi. m. <strong>the</strong> typical<br />

Parables <strong>the</strong> illustration lies, so to speak, on <strong>the</strong><br />

outside; ir.'is in <strong>the</strong> symbolical, within <strong>the</strong><br />

narrative or scene. <strong>The</strong> former are to ■^loor.x.^ be<br />

applied; <strong>the</strong> latter must be explained.<br />

It is here that <strong>the</strong> characteristic difference between<br />

<strong>the</strong> various classes <strong>of</strong> hearers lay. All <strong>the</strong><br />

Parables, indeed, implied some background <strong>of</strong><br />

opposition, or else <strong>of</strong> unreceptiveness. In <strong>the</strong><br />

record <strong>of</strong> this first series <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m,® <strong>the</strong> fact that<br />

<strong>Jesus</strong> spake to <strong>the</strong> people in "^ Mi>*** Parables,^<br />

<strong>and</strong> only in Parables,' is strongly marked. It<br />

appears, psticati. <strong>the</strong>refore, to have been <strong>the</strong> first<br />

time that this mode <strong>of</strong> popular ^JJijieUi** teaching<br />

was adopted by Him.' Accordingly, <strong>the</strong> disciples<br />

not only < st. ifott. expressed <strong>the</strong>ir astonishment,

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