Are We Honoring Jesus and Reading the Parable?

Augustine probably did want to know what Jesus meant and probably thought he was getting out what Jesus meant. He's not attending to the context that Luke has given us in why Jesus told the story and to whom. And he's put it in a new context, which is his kind of meta interpretation of the biblical story. Humans falling from their heavenly perfection, beset with sin and then death and being healed by Jesus so that they can return to their heavenly home. That's Augustine's understanding of how the biblical story works.