The guest list is in itself a little parable of the state of American civic life at this time.

A little parable illustrative of this truth is afforded by an incident related by Professor Bela Vasady at the end of the Second World War.

Her story The Land of Far-Beyond is a Christian parable along the lines of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, with modern children as the central characters.

The priest tells K. that the parable is an ancient text of the court, and many generations of court officials have given interpretations.

Contained within Economic Sophisms is the famous satirical parable known as the " Candlemakers ' petition " which presents itself as a demand from the candlemakers ' guild to the French government, asking the government to block out the Sun to prevent its unfair competition with their products.

Similarly, a city has three parts – Socrates uses the parable of the chariot to illustrate his point: a chariot works as a whole because the two horses ’ power is directed by the charioteer.

Socrates uses the parable of the ship to illustrate this point: the unjust city is like a ship in open ocean, crewed by a powerful but drunken captain ( the common people ), a group of untrustworthy advisors who try to manipulate the captain into giving them power over the ship's course ( the politicians ), and a navigator ( the philosopher ) who is the only one who knows how to get the ship to port.

As one commentator notes, " Luke is the only one to record the parable of the two debtors, and he chooses to preserve it in this setting ...

If one considers the other gospel accounts as a variation of the same event, it is likely that the parable is not authentically set.

The Parable of the Pearl ( also called the Pearl of Great Price ) is a parable of Jesus of Nazareth.

This parable is generally interpreted as illustrating the great value of the Kingdom of Heaven ( pearls at that time had a greater value than they do today ), and thus has a similar theme to the Parable of the Hidden Treasure.

This interpretation of the parable is the inspiration for a number of hymns, including the Swedish hymn Den Kos ­ tli ­ ga Pärlan ( O That Pearl of Great Price!

A less common interpretation of the parable is that the merchant represents Christ, and the pearl represents the Church.

In chapter 21, the parable of the vineyard is followed by the great " stone " text, an early christological midrash of: " The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone ".

It is a philosophical parable with a sparse plot featuring bare and abstract descriptions of characters ; the city of Omelas is the primary focus of the narrative.

The theme of the hymns and readings on this Sunday is dedicated to the lessons to be learned from the parable: that righteous actions alone do not lead to salvation, that pride renders good deeds fruitless, that God can only be approached through a spirit of humility and repentance, and that God justifies the humble rather than the self-righteous.

The Gospel Reading on Sunday lays out one of the most important themes of the Lenten season: the process of falling into of sin, realization of one's sinfulness, the road to repentance, and finally reconciliation, each of which is illustrated in the course of the parable.

This is the moral of Lessing's Nathan the Wise ( Nathan der Weise ), the hero of which is undoubtedly Mendelssohn, and in which the parable of the three rings is the epitome of the pragmatic position.

The New Testament contains the parable of the Good Samaritan, where a man who was beaten is cared for by a Samaritan.

When Mannie asks him why he bought it, the Professor relates the following parable, implying that self-government is an illusion caused by failure to understand reality:

However, if one considers the story historically accurate, happening in Jesus ' life apart from the similar incidents recorded in the other gospels, the question of the authenticity of the parable receives a different answer ... John Nolland, following Wilckens ' ideas, writes: ' There can hardly be a prior form of the episode not containing the present parable, since this would leave the Pharisee's concerns of v 39 with no adequate response '.

Martin's distant-future science fiction parable of Christianity, the 1979 short story The Way of Cross and Dragon.

As the story reached those who were unaware of the oppression of the Samaritans, this aspect of the parable became less and less discernible: fewer and fewer people ever heard of them in any context other than as a description.

" William C. Placher points out that such debate misinterprets the biblical genre of a parable, which illustrates a moral rather than a historical point: on reading the story, " we are not inclined to check the story against the police blotter for the Jerusalem-Jericho highway patrol.

" The moral of the story would still hold if the parable originally followed the priest-Levite-Israelite sequence of contemporary Jewish stories, as Halévy suggested.

However, unlike the apologue, the parable is a realistic story that seems inherently probable and takes place in a familiar setting of life.

The story of this parable is famous across other Hasidic dynasties as well.

* Narrative sermons-which tell a story, often a parable, or a series of stories, to make a moral point.

The authors of the article suggest that the story continues to be misrepresented in social psychology textbooks because it functions as a parable and serves as a dramatic example for students.

A parable of subjective idealism can be found in Jorge Luis Borges ' short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, which specifically mentions Berkeley.

Similarly, in the 20th century, calling a parable " an earthly story with a heavenly meaning ", William Barclay states that the parables of Jesus use familiar examples to lead men's minds towards heavenly concepts.

Oblique adaptations include that by the Reverend Robert Wilkins, who told the story of this parable in the song " Prodigal Son ", which is probably best known as a cover version by the Rolling Stones on their 1968 album Beggar's Banquet.

British Reggae band Steel Pulse recorded a song titled " Prodigal Son " on their debut album Handsworth Revolution, recreating the Biblical story as a Rastafarian parable.

An earlier work with similarities to the parable is Le retour de l ' enfant prodigue ( The Return of the Prodigal Son ), a short story by André Gide.

The term is also found in various writing styles such as parable, beatitude, prayer, miracle story and aphorism.

The story is used as a gnostic parable of the soul's pre-existence and return from its terrestrial sojourn ".

In its lack of explicit moralism it is much closer to the novel than to the parable: " the story is the first thing, the moral the second, and the latter is never suffered to interfere with the former.

On the other hand, despite the presence of the Emerald City, Oz is an agrarian country, similar to Kansas ; the story has been interpreted as a populist parable, and certainly contains many populist themes.

Warren Ellis ' 1995 Starjammers limited series described the story of the Shi ' ar deities Sharra and K ' ythri as a parable which guides the Shi ' ar expansionist philosophy to other worlds:

* One interpretation of the story is as a parable about unrequited love.

A few scholars have suggested that the novel hides in its story a parable critical of the military dictatorship, particularly through the portrayal of a repressive but ineffectual assistant police commissioner, Pedrito Gordo.