Excerpt from The Parables in Our Saviour: Expounded and Illustrated The parables of our Lord have always had a special attraction for students of the Gospels, and there are probably more works devoted to their exposition than to that of any other portion of the Saviour's teach ings. In adding another to the number, I can claim only such originality as may be fairly accounted for by what astronomers have called the personal equation; and the result may be a further illustration of the many sidedness of these exquisite stories. To Arch bishop Trench, who more than any other English writer has brought Patristic lore to bear upon the illustration of the parables, every later author musc express his peculiar obligations; but the recent works of Professor Bruce and Siegfried Goebel have broken new ground in this department, and my aim has been to turn their fruitful suggestions to good homiletical account. The little volumes of Dr. Bods - only the first of which was in my hands when these discourses were prepared - are full of golden nuggets; and the Expositions Of William Arnot are characterized by the masculine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.