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Title: A dictionary of important names, objects, and terms, found in the Holy Scriptures. Intended principally for youth
Year: 1831 (1830s)
Authors: Malcom, Howard, 1799-1879
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Boston, Lincoln & Edmands
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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aughtsof some of his epistles, or anoted copy of the Old Tes-tament^ Tim. iv. 13. Forabout 550 years, paper madeof linen rags has been inuse. Latterly cotton rags,and sometimes even straw,and other substances, havebeen made into paper. PAPHOS, a commercialcity of Cyprus, visited byPaul, Acts xiii. 6. Twenty-five or thirty poor huts areall that remain of this oncemetropolitan city. Thismiserable village is nowcalled Baffa. PARABLE, a shortweighty sentence, or a si-militude, used to conveyinstruction to ignorant, prej-udiced, or inattentive hear-ers. The ancients used par-ables very much. To understand parables,it is proper to observe, (1.)It is not necessary that therepresentation of naturalthings in a parable shouldbe strictly matter of fact,because the design is not toinform concerning these,but concerning some moremomentous truth ; nor is itnecessary that all the actionsin a parable be strictly just.2 Sain. xiv. Luke xvi. I—8.(2,) We must chiefly attendto the scope of the parable,
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THE EGYPTIAN PAPER REED. 0 PAR 163 PAR which is to be gatheredfrom its inspired explica-tion, if any; or from iheintroduction to it, or theconclusion of it. (3.) Henceit follows, that we are notto expect that every circum-stance in the parable shouldbe answered by somethingin the explication ; for sev-eral circumstances may beadded for the sake of deco-rum, or mere allusion to thatwhence the figure of theparable is taken. (4.) Yeta parable may inform us ofseveral truths beside thescope of it. The following table, ac-cording to Newcomes Har-mony, shows the order inwhich those of Christ weredelivered: Blind leading the blind, Lukevi. 39.House founded on a rock,Mat.vii. 24.The two debtors, Lukevii. 41. Expelled devil returning,Mat. xii.43.The rich fool, Luke xii. 16. The watchful servants, xii. 38.The barren fig-tree, xiii. 6. The sower, Matt. xiii. 3. The wheat and tares, xiii. 24. The growth of the seed, Mark iv. 26.The mustard seed, Matt. xiii. 31.The leaven, « 33. Hidden treasure, x

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