Part 3

  • A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten minas, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. But...
  • In the times of the Gospel, a talent denoted a very large sum of money. A talent corresponded to sixty minas. A mina equaled a hundred dinarii. During the earthly life of the Saviour, an ordinary...
  • In order to live a genuine spiritual life, it is not enough to be fervent; one must become sensible. Without good sense, our fervor alone can turn into "zeal not according to knowledge", and will...
  • If in the preceding two parables - of the builder of the tower and of the king preparing for war - the Lord impressed on us the necessity of appraising our strength and the inevitability of...
  • We find the parable of the evil husbandmen in the first three Evangelists (Matthew 21:33-41, Mark 12:1-9, Luke 20:9-16). Here is how the Evangelist Luke transmits this parable: A certain man planted...
  • This parable is written in the Gospel according to Luke: A certain many had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of...
  • The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. Again, he sent...
  • This parable, which some Church writers call the parable "of the husbandmen called to work at various times of the day", we find in the Gospel according to Matthew: For the kingdom of heaven is like...
  • The parable of the ten virgins, who await the coming of the bridegroom and have gone out to meet him, is found only in the Evangelist Matthew. However, certain details have parallels also in the...
  • Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may...

Epilogue

  • We have examined twenty seven of our Lord Jesus Christ's parables. As we have seen, the Lord frequently made use of parables in order figuratively to expound and explain the truths of his teaching....

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