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The Parables is a clearly written introduction to the parables of Jesus. After introducing the various forms of parables found in the Synoptic Gospels and the principles of interpretation, Simon Kistemaker examines the parables individually, including the entire text of each parable, followed by his commentary. Kistemaker gives careful attention to the historical and cultural setting of each...

What can you do with saltless salt? It is good for nothing. A farmer does not want these chemicals on his land because in their crude state they harm plants. To throw the residue on a manure pile does not help either, for every so often the manure is gathered and spread over the land as fertilizer. The only thing that can be done with saltless salt is to throw it outside where people can trample it underfoot.3 If salt loses its basic property of being salty,4 it cannot be made salty again. In the
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