House of Holi-·;. ness

Luke cuts out the tower, the wine-press, and the hedge, and sends only three servants in advance of the son1 they are maltreated but not killed

the meaning of a text goes beyond its author not sometimes but always" and that "one understands differently when one understands at all."

he proclamation of good news to all.

but behind them all is a conviction that the parables must orig-inally have been simple illustrations of the teacher's point, made in order to help those who had difficulty with abstrac-tions.

its original sense was already lost, and its place taken by an inferior homiletic substitute.

He replies that they, his elect, lmow the mystery of the kingdom and do not need to be addressed in parables, but those outside are addressed only thus, "so that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear but not understand

If a word can cover so many things, from proverbial wisdom to dark sayings requiring recondite rabbinical explana-tion, and even to secret apocalyptic signs, it seems likely that· people who used the word in this way must have interpreted all narrative with a comparable variety and range.