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• PARABLE (Gr. 7apa(3oXi7, a comparison or similitude)

PARABLE (Gr. 7apa(3oXi7, a comparison or similitude)  , originally the name given by See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek rhetoricians to a See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• ILLUSTRATION

illustration avowedly introduced as such . In See also:

• LATE

late Greek it came to mean a fictitious narrative or See also:

• ALLEGORY (iXXos, other, and ayopeuav, to speak)

allegory (generally some-thing that might naturally occur) by which moral or spiritual relations are typically set forth, as in the New Testament . The See also:

• PARABLE (Gr. 7apa(3oXi7, a comparison or similitude)

parable differs from the See also:

• APOLOGUE (from the Gr. &rroXoyos, a statement or account)

apologue in the inherent See also:

• PROBABILITY (Lat. probabilis, probable or credible)

probability of the See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story itself, and in excluding animals or inanimate creatures from passing out of their natural See also:

• SPHERE (Gr. vclsa?pa, a ball or globe)

sphere and assuming the See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers of See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, but it resembles it in the essential qualities of brevity and definiteness, and also in its Eastern origin . There are many beautiful examples of the parable in the Old Testament, that of Nathan, for instance, in 2 Sam. xii . 1-9, that of the woman of Tekoah in 2 Sam. xiv . 1-13, and others in the Prophets .