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Finding Meaning in the Parables – Parables E6

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The Parables Are Metaphors. Yeah.

The parables are extended metaphors. Instead of a short phrase or one word or image, the whole story of a parable becomes a large metaphor. We have a target that we want to describe or give new insight into. And so we borrow from a source domain to describe a target. So time is something that we spend. We lose it. We save it. I compare it to possession. You begin to understand it.

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