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

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 747 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAI-PAS
PARABLE (Gr. 7apa(3oXi7, a comparison or similitude) , originally the name given by
Greek
  rhetoricians to a literary
illustration
  avowedly introduced as such. In
late
 
Greek
  it came to mean a fictitious narrative or
allegory
  (generally some-thing that might naturally occur) by which moral or spiritual relations are typically set forth, as in the New Testament. The
parable
  differs from the
apologue
  in the inherent
probability
  of the
story
  itself, and in excluding animals or inanimate creatures from passing out of their natural sphere and assuming the
powers
  of 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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