The Parables of Jesus in Recent Study
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I. THE TRADITION OF ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION The history of parabolic interpretation can be divided into four relatively distinct periods. During the Period of the Early Church (to 540) a tendency toward allegorical interpretation was firmly established. Despite certain protests the three-fold method of allegorical interpretation championed by Origen dominated the exegesis not only of the parables but of the whole of Scripture. Even as the human was thought to consist of a body, a soul, and a spirit (cf. 1 Thess 5:23), so Scripture was seen as containing a body (the literal meaning of the text), a soul (the moral meaning), and a spirit (the spiritual meaning). In searching for the spiritual meaning of the parables, the allegorical method of interpretation was used, and the interpretation of a parable such as the good Samaritan became for Origen an allegory of the history of the world:
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