parable proffers a vision of the selective vivacity or exuberance of life over against its wide miscarriage. 1.4 Accepting some such reading or hearing of the parable as an unsophisticated depth-response what can one say about it as a language vehicle? What is the correlation of form and communication? What observations about its rhetoric or linguistic structure would help to explain its power and to disentangle its real focus? Inadequate interpretations of the parable are certainly connected with
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