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The Parabolic Teaching of Christ: A Systematic and Critical Study of the Parables of Our Lord is unavailable, but you can change that!

In his typically scholarly manner, A. B. Bruce analyzes and interprets the parables of Jesus, building on the foundation of study that was set by Richard C. Trench, Siegfried Goebel, Ernst J. G. de Valenti, William Arnot, and other scholars and preachers before him. He develops his own interpretations and theories based on the Bible text itself, and then draws from a rich tradition of German,...

We proceed now to the interpretation of our parable. Christ’s own interpretation was as follows: Hear ye then the parable of the sower. In the case of every one hearing the word of the kingdom and not understanding it, cometh the wicked one and catcheth away that which has been sown in his heart. This is the one sown by the wayside.1 But the one sown upon the rocky places is he who heareth the word and anon with joy receiveth it. But he hath not root in himself, but is only temporary,2 and when tribulation
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