Bible Dictionary: Parables: The Mirror

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Nave's Topical Index

James 1:23-25
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like to a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
Nave's Topical Index

Library

Of the Prodigal Son.
... although (albeit all points be capable of corresponding with mirror-like accuracy ...
Thus heretics, too, apply the self-same parables where they list, and exclude ...
/.../tertullian/on modesty/chapter viii of the prodigal son.htm

The Last Farthing.
... more, because they would not do them; they should have but parables"lanterns of ... been
saying is imaginary; but our imagination is made to mirror truth; all ...
//christianbookshelf.org/macdonald/unspoken sermons/the last farthing.htm

Valentine Weigel and Nature Mysticism
... The things that are seen are parables of other things which are not seen. ... of the
whole cosmos, visible and invisible"an image of God and a mirror of the ...
/.../chapter viii valentine weigel and.htm

Gordon -- Man in the Image of God
... vision goes everywhere, turning the hidden truth of life into light and joy in His
parables. ... Here we see in a mirror and dimly; there they behold face to face. ...
/.../various/the worlds great sermons volume 10/gordon man in the.htm

Introduction.
... In this department most of the Lord's parables lie. ... Let some friend who knows his
danger, but wishes him well, approach the spot and hold a mirror in such a ...
//christianbookshelf.org/arnot/the parables of our lord/introduction.htm

The Draw-Net.
... approaching us becomes a new creature too, as the image in a mirror changes with ...
It is the word of the Lord; not spoken in parables, but expressly given as the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/arnot/the parables of our lord/vii the draw-net.htm

The Entrusted Talents.
The Parables of Our Lord. ... side of the picture, that the evangelical obedience of
the faithful servants may be most distinctly seen in the dark mirror of the ...
/.../arnot/the parables of our lord/xiv the entrusted talents.htm

His General Character as a Theologian.
... transfigured and beautified by it becomes itself the mirror of this mirror: and
then ... other or the literal side, which cannot in the case of parables be said to ...
/.../gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/chapter ii his general character as.htm

The Epistle of St. James
... The best of men cannot always remain in front of a mirror, scrutinizing their defects ...
Which sums up the teaching of parables like those of Matthew 18:21-35 and ...
/.../moffat/the general epistles james peter and judas/the epistle of st james.htm

Jacob Boehme's Influence in England
... Nature will be an open Book of Parables in which he can read the truth of Eternity,
the world will be a clear mirror in which he can see the things of the ...
/.../chapter xii jacob boehmes influence.htm