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Another parable is about a man who had a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen.

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  1. noun A simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson.

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  • To my mind this parable is the link connecting the two ends of the great chain of God's work and man's work in both the natural and spiritual life of man. —  Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary
  • More often than not we hear about the son and how he left like a dirty sinner, but this parable is also such a picture of the heart of God. —  Cross Rhythms
  • Jesus tells the disciples that the knowledge of the kingdom of heaven is not given to all men and women, even though the parable is addressed to all in the sense of a "general call." —  The Latest Post
  • President Obama's mention of the parable is another example of bad exegesis. —  RELIGION
  • It is a kind of parable which is extremely clear once one has the key to it, when nothing is easier than to translate it into our own sober, positive forms of speech. —  Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin parabola, from Greek parabolē, from paraballein, to compare : para-, beside; see para-1 + ballein, to throw; see gwelə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English parable, parabole, from Old French parable, parabole,F. parabole= Spanish parabola = Portuguese Italian parabola, from Latin parabola, parabole,a comparison, Late Latin parabola,eccl., an allegorical relation, a parable, proverb, taunting speech, any speech, Middle Latin also a word, from Greek παραβολή,a comparison, from παραβάλλειν, from παρά, beside, + βάλλειν, throw. Hence also (from Latin parabola) English parole, parl, parley, palaver,etc. Cf.parabola.
  2. from parable, n.
  3. from Latin parabilis,easily procured. from parare, prepare: see pare.
 

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