Mark 4:13 And he said to them, Know you not this parable? and how then will you know all parables? I. THIS IS A PRINCIPLE NOT TO BE UNIVERSALLY ACTED UPON IN EARTHLY THINGS. Because of: 1. Limitation of human powers. 2. Obscurity, complexity, and occasional discontinuity and non-uniformity of nature and human life. II. TO THOSE WHO ARE ILLUMINATED IT IS ABSOLUTELY VALID IN DIVINE THINGS. 1. Not because the forms and successive stooges of the truth are mere repetitions of one another. 2. But they are all centred and interpreted in one Person. 3. They all require the exercise of the same spiritual faculty. - M. Parallel Verses KJV: And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?WEB: He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables? |
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