The much-copied storyline was a parable that was metaphorically interpreted in many different ways at the outset of the Cold War.

Here, according to an allegorical parable, " The Choice of Heracles ", invented by the sophist Prodicus ( c. 400 BC ) and reported in Xenophon's Memorabilia 2. 1. 21-34, he was visited by two nymphs — Pleasure and Virtue — who offered him a choice between a pleasant and easy life or a severe but glorious life: he chose the latter.

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

The album's release was preceded by the release of its first single, " Short Skirt / Long Jacket ", described as a parable about " the relationship between prosperity and the population boom ...

In support of this is the coincidence that the father and five brothers who will not be convinced even if the parable Lazarus is raised from the dead ( Luke 16: 31 ) predict that Caiaphas, Annas, and the five sons of Annas would not believe and plotted to have the real Lazarus killed when he was raised ( John 12: 10 ).

Spielberg admitted this scene triggered speculation as to whether the film was a spiritual parable.

It was the Elder who received the Etrusca Disciplina from Tages, whom he identifies as a parable.

If the Gospel of Thomas were the earliest, we would have to imagine that each of the evangelists or the traditions behind them expanded the parable in different directions and then that in the process of transmission the text was trimmed back to the form it has in the Syriac Gospels.

The meaning of the parable for Calvin was, instead, that " compassion, which an enemy showed to a Jew, demonstrates that the guidance and teaching of nature are sufficient to show that man was created for the sake of man.

The parable of the broken window was introduced by Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay ( That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Unseen ) to illustrate why destruction, and the money spent to recover from destruction, is actually not a net-benefit to society.

James Sallis declared that The Man Who Fell to Earth was " among the finest science fiction novels ," saying " Just beneath the surface it might be read as a parable of the Fifties and of the Cold War.

Tirso's original play was meant as religious parable against Don Juan's sinful ways, and ends with his death, having been denied salvation by God.

This belief was popularized by Joseph Turner and was based on that key Millerite passage: — the parable of the ten virgins.

The first observation was influenced by Nobel Prize winner Herbert A. Simon's parable of the two watchmakers, wherein Simon concludes that complex systems will evolve from simple systems much more rapidly if there are stable intermediate forms present in that evolutionary process than if they are not present.

Price alleged that the clip portrayed him describing his wealth in extravagant terms, when he was actually telling a parable about a rich man.

" The much-copied storyline was a parable that was interpreted in many different ways at the outset of the Cold War.

He was granted a considerable amount of creative freedom as director, authorised by Andrew Lloyd Webber to make significant changes to the dramatic structure of the musical, including replacing the running parable of Annie and Charlie Christmas told to the children by The Man with a lighter-toned number called " The Gang " ( lyrics by Don Black ).

The parable regarding Motonari, his three sons, and the lesson of the three arrows is believed have been a source of inspiration for Akira Kurosawa when he was writing his epic film Ran.

He also points out that the master in the parable speaks favorably of the " money exchangers ", telling the third servant that the least he could have done was to " put his money to the exchangers " so that the master would have been able to receive his " own " ( investment ) " with usury " ( interest ).

On the other hand, Christian leftists ( not just communists ) – such as John Cort – point out that this was a parable, and parables are by definition not intended to be taken at face value.

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.

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 '.

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.

His attitude is explained by Achilleus to Priam, in a parable of two jars at the door of Zeus, one of which contains good things, and the other evil.

The play is a parable of resignation ; a state one reaches only after a series of disappointments.

The parable of the Good Samaritan is a parable told by Jesus and is mentioned in only one of the Canonical gospels of the New Testament.

And, not surprisingly in the Third Gospel, neighborly love has been concretized in care for one who is, in this parable, self-evidently a social outcast

The term " good Samaritan " is used as a common metaphor: " The word now applies to any charitable person, especially one who, like the man in the parable, rescues or helps out a needy stranger.

A parable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive principles, or lessons, or ( sometimes ) a normative principle.

A parable is a short tale that illustrates universal truth, one of the simplest of narratives.

With all of these examples, care must be taken that every factor is taken into account, just as happened in the parable of the broken window: does one know all the costs and benefits?

The point of the broken window parable is to show that one cannot ignore the hidden costs of taking wealth to build the road when totalling up any such " net benefit.

After relating the parable of the rich man who took away the one little ewe lamb of his poor neighbor ( II Samuel 12: 1-6 ), and exciting the king's anger against the unrighteous act, the prophet applied the case directly to David's action with regard to Bathsheba.

Thus the meaning of the parable would be that one should seek to grow in the Lord ; to multiply one's treasures in heaven, not on Earth ( in accordance with Matthew 6: 19 – 24 ).

While the exact meaning of the parables taught by Jesus is open to interpretation, many Christians, of different varieties, typically interpret one particular parable in many different ways.

When " the citizens of Shechem and the whole house of Millo " were gathered together " by the plain of the pillar " ( i. e., the stone set up by Joshua, 24: 26 ; compare Genesis 35: 4 ) " that was in Shechem, to make Abimelech king ," from one of the heights of Mount Gerizim he protested against their doing so in the earliest parable, that of the bramble-king.

The parable, and its messages of not being quick to condemn when one is not blameless and tempering justice with mercy, have endured in Christian thought.

Water puppet, representing one of the stages of the Ox-Herding Pictures | Buddhist ' ox herder ' parable.

These schools of thought can be likened to the parable about the blind men standing around the elephant each describing what they feel-one feels the elephant's feet, one feels the ears, the trunk, etc.