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- Author: Edward Craig Mitchell
- Publisher: W. H. Alden
- Publication Date: 1903
- Total Pages: 437
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The Parables of the Old Testament Explained
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PREFACE
The Sacred Scriptures are the Word of God, written in a Divine way, and for a Divine purpose.
The Divine Word contains messages from God, as a Spiritual Being, to men as spiritual beings. But, in order to bring down the truth to the apprehension of natural-minded men, spiritual truths must be presented in corresponding natural ideas, in natural imagery.
"I, Jehovah, thy God, ... have also spoken by the prophets, and have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets." (Hosea xii. 9, 10.)
Hence the Bible has a spirit and a body, between which there is the relation of correspondence, as inward and outward counterparts.
The word "parable" is used in three senses,-1, as an enigma, or obscure saying; 2, as any figurative discourse; and 3, as a fictitious, but possible, narrative, invented to convey and illustrate a truth. The parables of the New Testament are strictly within the third class. But, on the same exact basis, there are very few parables in the Old Testament. And so, for the treatment of the parables of the Old Testament, the second definition is adopted, which includes, also, fables and visions.
Every parable has at least three senses,-1, its narrative sense; 2, its figurative meaning, as applied to other natural persons and things; and 3, its spiritual meaning, illustrating principles operating in the mind.
The system of interpretation here employed is that known as "The Science of Correspondences," made known to the Church through Emanuel Swedenborg.
as it seemed best to have each explanation of a parable complete in itself, some repetition was unavoidable.
E.C.M.
ST PAUL, MINNESOTA, February 21, 1903
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
I. PAGE.
Judges ix.: 8-15.-TREES CHOOSING A KING ......................... 9
II.
Judges xiv.: 4, 5, 12, 14.-SAMSON'S RIDDLE ...................... 20
III.
II. Samuel xii.: 1-4.-NATHAN'S PARABLE OF THE EWE-LAMB .......... 29
IV.
II. Samuel xiv.: 5-7, II.-THE REVENGERS OF BLOOD ................ 40
V.
I. Kings xx.: 39, 40.-THE ESCAPED PRISONER ...................... 51
VI.
II. Kings xiv.: 9.-THE AMBITIOUS THISTLE ........................ 61
VII.
Isaiah v.: 1-7.-THE WASTED VINEYARD ............................. 71
VIII.
Jeremiah i..: 11-4.-THE ALMOND ROD AND SEETHING POT ............. 82
IX.
Jeremiah xiii.: 1-7.-THE MARRED GIRDLE .......................... 90
X.
Jeremiah xviii,: 2-6.-THE POTTER'S VESSEL MARRED ................ 98
XI.
Jeremiah xix.: 1, 2, 10, 11.-THE POTTER'S VESSEL BROKEN ......... 103
XII.
Jeremiah xxiv.: 1, 2.-THE TWO BASKETS OF FIGS ................... 106
XIII.
Jeremiah xxvii.: 2, 3, 6; xxviii.: 1, 2, 10, 12, 13.-JEREMIAH'S
BONDS AND YOKES ............................................ 113
XIV.
Jeremiah xliii. : 8-1O.-HIDING THE STONES IN THE MORTAR ......... 121
XV.
Ezekiel i.: 4-16.-INFOLDING FIRE, LIVING CREATURES AND
WHEELS ..................................................... 129
XVI.
Ezekiel ii: 8-10; iii.: 1-4, 14.-EATING THE ROLL OF A BOOK ...... 138
XVII.
Ezekiel iv.: 1-13.-THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM ....................... 148
XVIII.
Ezekiei v.: 1-5.-EZEKIEL CUTTING OFF HIS HAIR, ETC. ............. 157
XIX.
Ezekiel viii. 1-16.-JERUSALEM'S IDOLATRY ........................ 166
XX.
Ezekiel ix.: 1-6, II; xv : 1, 2, 7.-THE SLAUGHTER IN
JERUSALEM .................................................. 176
XXI.
Ezekiel xii.: 1-7.-EZEKIEL REMOVING HIS GOODS ................... 184
XXII.
Ezekiel xii.: 18-20.-EATING WITH QUAKING AND DRINKING
WITH TREMBLING ............................................. 192
XXIV.
Ezekiel xv.-THE VINE OF JERUSALEM ............................... 205
XXV.
Ezekiel xvii.: 2-10-THE EAGLES AND THE VINE ..................... 214
XXVI.
Ezekiel xviii.: 1, 2.-EATING SOUR GRAPES ........................ 224
XXVII.
Ezekiel xix.: 1-9.-THE LIONESS AND HER WHELPS ................... 233
XXVIII.
Ezekiel xix.: 10-14.-ISRAEL'S MOTHER AS A VINE .................. 243
XXIX.
Ezekiel xxiv. 3-12.-JERUSALEM AS A BOILING FLESH-POT ............ 251
XXX.
Ezekiel xxxi.: 3-12.-THE ASSYRIAN A CEDAR IN LEBANON ............ 261
XXXI.
Ezekiel xxxiv.: 1-6, 9-11.-THE EVIL SHEPHERDS ................... 272
XXXII.
Ezekiel xxxvii.: 1-14.-THE DRY BONES REVIVED .................... 282
XXXIII.
Ezekiel xxxvii.: 16-23.-THE TWO STICKS JOINED ................... 293
XXXIV.
Ezekiel xxxix.: 17-21.-INVITATION TO THE GREAT SACRIFICE ........ 303
XXXV.
Ezekiel xlvii.: 1-9.- WATER FLOWING FROM THE LORD'S HOUSE ....... 312
XXXVI.
Daniel ii.: 31-45.-NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DREAM OF THE GREAT
IMAGE ...................................................... 322
XXXVII.
Daniel iv.: 10-28.-NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DREAM OF THE GREAT
TREE ....................................................... 332
XXXVIII.
Daniel v.-THE FEAST. THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL ................ 342
XXXIX.
Daniel vii.: 2-18, 23-27.-VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS ............. 352
XL.
Daniel viii.: 2-26.-THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT ..................... 362
XLI.
Zechariah i.: 8-11.-THE MAN AMONG THE MYRTLE TREES .............. 371
XLII.
Zechariah i.: 18-21.-THE HORSES. AND FOUR CARPENTERS ............ 378
XLIII.
Zechariah ii.: 1-5.-THE MAN WITH A MEASURING-LINE ............... 386
XLIV.
Zechariah iii.-VISION OF JOSHUA, THE HIGH PRIEST ................ 393
XLV.
Zechariah iv.: 1-7, 11-14.-GOLDEN CANDLESTICK AND OLIVETREES .... 403
XLVI.
Zechariah v.: 1-4-THE FLYING ROLL ............................... 411
XLVII.
Zechariah v.: 5-11.-THE WOMEN AND THE EPHAH ..................... 419
XLVIII.
Zechariah vi.: 1-8.-FOUR CHARIOTS AND HORSES .................... 428
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