AN EXPOSITION OF THE PARABLES AND OF OTHER PARTS OF THE GOSPELS, BY EDWARD GRESWELL, B. D. FELLOW OF C. C. C. OXFORD. IN FIVE VOLUMES. VOL. V. PART II. OXFORD: PRINTED BY S. COLLINGWOOD, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON. MDCCCXXXV. APPENDIX, CHAPTER I. ON THE OMISSIONS IN THE LIST OR SEE INTRODUCTION, CHAPTER I. p. 4. THE list or syllabus of parables, which I proposed for future discussion, in the first chapter of the General Introduction, was complete as far as regarded the allegorical parables; that is, the most comprehensive division of the parables in general. But with respect to the moral; though every moral parable might be a specimen of the argument a pari, or from analogy, it would manifestly have been improper to consider every such argument which was to be found in our Saviour's discourses, recorded in the Gospels, entitled to the name of a moral parable. Instances of such arguments abound in his discourses; and a complete consideration of all the applications of this principle of reasoning, to didactic and practical purposes, wheresoever they occur in the Gospels, would be the consideration of almost every thing which our Saviour is recorded to have said, in the way of general or special instruction. There are only two such passages, to which, under certain qualifications of its meaning, the name of moral parables, or examples, might properly have been ap |