37 27 . Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1832, by Thomas Whittemore, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts. To the Rev. Hosea Ballou : RESPECTED BROTHER :—Having brought the following work to a close, I am impelled by a sense of my individual obligations to you, and of the debt of gratitude under which you have laid the Universalist community by your long and unremitted services, to make this insufficient acknowledgment. When you was about my age, you made the Parables of the New Testament the subject of particular and careful study, and at that time produced your highly valuable work which has since passed through repeated editions, and been very generally read by the religious denomination to which we belong. I am a humble follower in the path which you marked out. This work, on which I take the liberty to inscribe your name, was I re commenced before it came to my knowledge that you intended revising your own. joice that you have bestowed on the third edition the fruit of your study and reflection, since its first appearance. It may not be iinproper to add, that this work has been prepared and published with the knowledge and encouragement of the respected booksellers, who possess the copy right of your Notes. There will be found, respected Brother, a close agreement between our application of the Parables. The principal difference is this: I have brought forward, in defence of the views we entertain, the testimony of commentators of various denominations; and I have endeavoured to make the Parables better understood, and account for the imagery used in many of them, by a reference to the laws, customs and habits of the eastern nations. I regret that I have not been able to attain this part of my object to a fuller extent. In the hope that your valuable life and labors may be continued yet many years, I subscribe myself affectionately yours, THOMAS WHITTEMORE. CONTENTS. Parable of the Salt of the Earth, Parable of the Light of the World, Parable of the Offending Hand or Foot, Parable of the Good and Corrupt Tree, Parable of the Wise and Foolish Builder, Parable of the Unclean Spirit, Parable of the Tares of the Field, Parable of the Pearl of Great Price, Parable of the Old Garment and Old Bottles, Parable of the Unforgiving Servant, Parable of the Good Samaritan, Parable of the Man who duated on Riches, Parable of the Barren Fig Tree, 1 3 6 8 10 20 24 26 29 33 38 44 53 55 58 60 61 64 69 74 79 85 89 95 103 Parable of the Counting the Cost, Parable of the Lost Piece of Silver, Parable of the Unjust Steward, Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, Parable of the Pharisee and Publican, Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard, Parable of the Unfaithful Husbandmen, Parable of the Marriage Feast, 118 123 127 129 137 144 171 176 182 191 196 202 213 219 223 |
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