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What is the deffinition of parable?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

A parable is a simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson.

The word parable is a compound word made up of two parts one meaning alongside and the other to throw or cast. In English we use one of the words as a prefix - para eg.

paramedics, or we talk about parachurch organisations

A parable is an illustration thrown in alongside of a truth in order to explain it, to make the truth easier to understand.

A parable puts something familiar alongside something unfamiliar, it compares something unfamiliar with something familiar.

A parable is similar to a fable or an allegory or a proverb

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