This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ... have included a human brain with its individuality. And concerning the mind of Jesus we have in His recorded discourses evidence to which there is nothing corresponding in the case of His outward appearance. We know that He possessed great fertility in illustration, HEARERS DISCRIMINATED 255 so that when He desired to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ... have included a human brain with its individuality. And concerning the mind of Jesus we have in His recorded discourses evidence to which there is nothing corresponding in the case of His outward appearance. We know that He possessed great fertility in illustration, HEARERS DISCRIMINATED 255 so that when He desired to make His hearers understand anything it was natural for Him to ask, Wherennto shall we liken it? or with what comparison shall we compare it? The only thing that seems to need comment is that His answer conveys the impression that He represented Himself, not as using parables in order to enable His hearers to understand, but in order to hide His meaning from those who were unworthy of His lessons. Indeed there are some of His parables which fulfil the former object so perfectly as not to require any explanation. Who, for example, needs a commentator on the parable of the Unmerciful Servant, in order to make him understand the unseemliness, when one who is much in need of pardon himself refuses it to lesser offenders? But in the case of the parable of the Sower, which seems to have been the first of which the disciples asked an explanation, the lessons taught are much less obvious; and the need for them would be little felt until they themselves came to be teachers. Then they might naturally have been disheartened at finding how much of their labour was expended without any profitable result; and it would give them courage when they discovered that the same had been the experience of their Master. The same parable contained a lesson for the hearers as well as for the teachers; for when they were taught how much the produce of the seed depended on the soil into which it was cast, they felt the practical urgency of the exhortation, Take heed how...
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