Learned Biblical writers warn us that we should never build theology from parables, but rather to treat Christ’s parables as commentaries, Midrash, on foundational Biblical teaching.
Hence the picture language of parables should be left as incidental to the story, as we seek to know the underlying truth the Master was teaching. In the last PT I focused only on the Bride. But to try to interpret who all the other people were in the three stories is a difficult task, and one that requires us to pay attention to what the learned Bible teachers said about parables. Moving on from there is the following. [Read more…]