M. F. p. 305.
By a Parable I mean a Symbolick form of speech,
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M. F. p. 305.
By a Parable I mean a Symbolick form of speech,
where by a well appropri∣ated similitude from some feigned story, some moral truth is insinuated to the minds of men to make it the better apprehended and un∣derstood.
Gale Court of the Gentiles, part 2. p. 97. cited from Diodate.
This was a fashion of teach∣ing used among the Iews, fol∣lowed
by our Lord, and very profitable to make the truth un∣derstood, and to insinuate the apprehension thereof into the minds of the auditors, by a well appropriated similitude, taken from a feigned story.