Foreshadows (Classic Reprint): Lectures on Our Lord's Parables: Lectures on Our Lord's Parables (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

John Cumming

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331361710 ISBN 13: 9781331361718

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Foreshadows: Lectures on Our Lord's Parables is a thoughtful exploration of Jesus’ parables as windows into future truth. This volume presents the parables as heavenly messages that illuminate prophecy, miracles, and ethical living for a modern reader.

In these pages, the author emphasizes the parable as a higher, spiritual vehicle for truth, distinct from secular fables. Read about how parables reveal kingdom mysteries to believers while inviting reflection on mercy, repentance, and the heart’s response to God. The collection also contrasts Pharisee and publican with a focus on humility, faith, and the need for God’s mercy.

What you’ll experience
- Clear explanations of how parables point to future events and eternal truths.
- Practical reflections on humility, worship, and the right kind of righteousness.
- Friction between ceremonial show and true devotion, with guidance for daily faith.
- A framework for applying scripture to personal growth and spiritual discernment.

Ideal for readers who want a steady, reverent guide to the parables and their larger biblical message, and for anyone seeking thoughtful, faith‑friendly interpretation.

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Product Description

Excerpt from Foreshadows: Lectures on Our Lord's Parables

This volume, which contains an exposition Of the Parables of our Lord, especially in their prospective aspect, will, it is hoped, be found as useful and instructive as its predecessor. The field travelled over is most interesting and suggestive. Great truths are latent in every part, waiting for patient and persistent application in order to emerge, and enlighten, and cheer. Practical lessons are numerous and Obvious. Both the one and the other, it is hoped, will be found intelligibly un.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331361710
• ISBN 13: 9781331361718
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 385