All 3 Uses
parable
in
Lord of Light
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- Dust off some of your old parables.†
Part 1 *parables = short stories told to teach moral lessons
- The answers following the questions, which now came from all of them, grew longer and longer, for they became parables, examples, allegories.†
Part 3
- I have listened too often to his sermons, to his subtle parables, to believe that he would do a thing such as this without a purpose.†
Part 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(parable) a short story told to teach a moral lesson -- especially those told by Jesus in the New Testament
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)