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Accordingly, the idea of the parable may in the first instance be generally defined to this effect: A narrative moving within the sphere of physical or human life, not professing to communicate an event which really tools place, but expressly imagined for the purpose of representing in pictorial figure a truth belonging to the sphere of religion, and therefore referring to the relation of man or mankind to God.

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Excerpt from The Parables of Jesus: A Methodical Exposition

At least such is my experience. I therefore attempted to help myself, and undertook the present work. I publish it in the hope that it may render the same help to one or another of my ministerial brethren which it has rendered to myself, perhaps also that here and there among non-theological readers of the Greek New Testament it may find a friend to whom it may prove instructive, and not without pleasure. Beyond this the design of its publication does not extend. But should it turn out that the work is not without value, even in a scientific aspect, in opening the way to a methodical treatment of the Parables in general, and to greater certainty in their still very divergent interpretation in detail, I shall especially rejoice in this as a welcome addition.

It will be self-evident that in what has been just said no disparaging judgment is meant to be passed on the works which have previously treated monographically of the Parables of Jesus in one way or another. Only they cannot satisfy the need of a methodical and exact exposition, because they do not even propose to do this. I quote them here, so far as they are known to me. Older ones are: Unger, Dc Parabolarum Jcsu natura, inter pretatione, nsu, 1828 (an elaborate treatise, but without thorough exposition); Lisco, Die Parabeln Jesu, ed.4, 1841 ("exegeticohomiletic"), in it is also found an elaborate list of still older works, from 1717 onwards; de Valenti, Dic Parabcln dcs Herrn, 1841(a practical exposition "for Church, School, and Home"); Arndt, Die Gleiclinissrccden Jesu Christi, 1842(sermons). In more recent days: Thiersch, Die Glcichnissc Christi nach ihrcr moralisclischcn and propietischen Bedeutung (Bible hours); Behrmann, Dic Glcichnissreden des Herrn, first half (Bible hours); Mangold, populäre Auslgung sädmmtlicher Gleichnisse Jesu Christi ("in catechetical order").

The modern exchange on the synoptical Gospels have been everywhere compared, even where not specially quoted by name.

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