Excerpt from The Fight of Faith: Sermons Preached on Various Occasions

"And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?" - Luke vii. 24.

The form into which Christ in this passage throws His view of the character of John the Baptist illustrates more than the symbolic method of His teaching. One sees in the choice of a natural object like the reed shaking in the wind in order to form a contrast to the unshaken temper of the Baptist the same love of symbolism which led Him in His Parables to make the ordinary things of Nature and human nature images of the relations and laws of the spiritual kingdom. In the case of the Parables, symbolism is deliberately used for the purpose of instruction.

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