Kingdom Parables

THE KINGDOM PARABLES
- That from which the rocks and the stones are removed so that the
roots can reach down for water.
- That from which thorns and thistles are weeded out
Here the word will sprout, grow into maturity and bring forth flowers
and gives abundance of harvest. As Mark puts it "Growing up and
increasing and yielding..." (Mk 4:8) Each plant in its turn provides in the
likeness of God, ‘seed for the sower and food for the eater."
Now compare these identifications of symbols and the interpretation as
a whole with those which Jesus himself have given us. Do they not
clearly show that our methods are correct?
Evidently even the naive critics were able to find in this parable the
experience of the early Church. (That is supposed to prove that Jesus
never gave those parables and the interpretation for them.) That is
exactly what Jesus was telling - the problem the church at the Apostolic
Age faced were the birds, the rock and the thorns. Yet the good ground
gave forth abundance.
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