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See also:PARABLE (Gr. 7apa(3oXi7, a comparison or similitude) , originally the name given by See also:Greek rhetoricians to a See also:literary See also:illustration avowedly introduced as such . In See also:late Greek it came to mean a fictitious narrative or See also: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 differs from the See also:apologue in the inherent See also:probability of the See also:story itself, and in excluding animals or inanimate creatures from passing out of their natural See also:sphere and assuming the See also:powers of See also: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 . |
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