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Biblical authors seized imagery drawn from everyday life and redeployed it in the service of divine revelation. But today’s readers are not familiar with many of these once-common illustrations. The distance in time, place, and culture between the Bible’s first recipients and people today often mutes the rhetorical impact of such images. Students of the Bible need someone to explain both the...

unfair when he blesses others who appear to have invested less in God’s kingdom (Matt. 20:1–16). In the parable of the talents, money represents the gifts God gives his church to advance the kingdom. Like those who received the talents of money in the parable, the expectation is that these gifts will be well invested (Matt. 25:14–30). And in the parable of the lost coin, the coin symbolizes the lost sinner who repents. The joy that fills heaven is like that of the poor woman who lost and then found
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