Nature, the Mirror of Grace: Studies of Seven Parables (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Nature, the Mirror of Grace: Studies of Seven Parables

His people indeed have been reading in this book ever since, and many of the church's best teachers have busied themselves with it. Origen and Augustine in the patristic age; Anselm and Hugo of St. Victor in the Middle Ages; Luther, Heinrich Muller and Christian Scriver, among the older German writers; John Spencer and Thomas Fuller, in England; Hugh Macmillan, George Macdonald and Mrs. Alfred Gatty, in our own time, have rendered good service as interpreters of the parables. These are names which occur to me, but there are many others who have laid us under obligations.

The parables I have tried to interpret more fully are all of them suggested in the Scriptures. They run through the whole texture of the Bible, ap pearing more fully in some parts than in others. They are but a few out of a great number which are found in the good book.

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Excerpt from Nature, the Mirror of Grace: Studies of Seven Parables

The language used by our Lord with regard to his own teaching by parable implies that there is a correspondence between the facts of nature and those of grace, which his people are to find a profit in studying. Such a correspondence is assumed throughout the Scriptures of both Testaments. It is implied in the terms by which spiritual truths are expressed, as these are derived from natural objects and transferred to the truths of the kingdom of God.

We generally speak of the parables as meaning those which our Lord employed in the Gospels. He uses this method of teaching more directly and frequently than is done in any other part of the Bible, but not with the assumption that he is exhausting the analogies with which he is dealing. Mark tells us that when the disciples were puzzled by the parable of the Sower, and asked its meaning, he said to them: "Unto you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all things are done in parables ... Know ye not this parable? and how shall ye know all the parables?"

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.