Part 3

  • I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly… I lay down my life for the sheep.. I am the good shepherd… I am not a hireling who careth not for the sheep… And...
  • The Saviour said more than once, Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven (Luke 6:37; cf. Mark 11:25-26), setting forgiveness of our neighbors by us as the indispensable condition for forgiveness of us by...
  • The parable of the Good Samaritan is well known to many of us from childhood. It is customary to think that we know it well. But do we? On the face of it, we sort of know it. But really, it is only...
  • The parable of the unjust steward was told by Jesus Christ immediately after the parable of the prodigal son, in which God's mercy toward a sinner, who had consciously given himself over to a sinful...
  • The parable of the rich man and Lazarus gives us an example of an extremely foolish utilization of material goods, and it raises slightly the curtain covering certain mysteries about man's portion...
  • A certain man once appealed to Jesus Christ with a request to order his brother to divide an inheritance with him. Christ declined this request, for He came not in order to hear lawsuits within the...
  • A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten minas, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. But...
  • In the times of the Gospel, a talent denoted a very large sum of money. A talent corresponded to sixty minas. A mina equaled a hundred dinarii. During the earthly life of the Saviour, an ordinary...
  • In order to live a genuine spiritual life, it is not enough to be fervent; one must become sensible. Without good sense, our fervor alone can turn into "zeal not according to knowledge", and will...
  • If in the preceding two parables - of the builder of the tower and of the king preparing for war - the Lord impressed on us the necessity of appraising our strength and the inevitability of...
  • We find the parable of the evil husbandmen in the first three Evangelists (Matthew 21:33-41, Mark 12:1-9, Luke 20:9-16). Here is how the Evangelist Luke transmits this parable: A certain man planted...
  • This parable is written in the Gospel according to Luke: A certain many had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of...
  • The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. Again, he sent...
  • This parable, which some Church writers call the parable "of the husbandmen called to work at various times of the day", we find in the Gospel according to Matthew: For the kingdom of heaven is like...
  • The parable of the ten virgins, who await the coming of the bridegroom and have gone out to meet him, is found only in the Evangelist Matthew. However, certain details have parallels also in the...
  • Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may...

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