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

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ushes <strong>and</strong> plants, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> home <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

householder, whose wife may at that moment have<br />

been in sight, busy preparing <strong>the</strong> weekly provision<br />

<strong>of</strong> bread. At any rate, it is necessary to keep in<br />

mind <strong>the</strong> homeliness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se illustrations. <strong>The</strong><br />

very idea <strong>of</strong> Parables implies, not strict scientific<br />

accuracy, but popular pictorialness. It is<br />

characteristic <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m to present vivid sketches that<br />

appeal to <strong>the</strong> popular mind, <strong>and</strong> exhibit such<br />

analogies <strong>of</strong> higher truths as can be readily<br />

perceived by all. Those addressed were not to<br />

weigh every detail, ei<strong>the</strong>r logically or<br />

scientifically, but at once to recognise <strong>the</strong> aptness<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> illustration as presented to <strong>the</strong> popular mind.<br />

Thus, as regards <strong>the</strong> first <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se two Parables, <strong>the</strong><br />

seed <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mustard-plant passed in popular<br />

parlance as <strong>the</strong> smallest <strong>of</strong> seeds.^ In fact, <strong>the</strong><br />

expression, * small as a mustard-seed,*<br />

* Without here anticipating what may parabolic<br />

teaching, but in <strong>the</strong> present<br />

have to be said as to Christ's teaching <strong>of</strong> instance

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