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In a Word: Of Parables and Parole | The Saturday Evening Post


parabola in Latin
. (How this word became the name of a geometric curve is another story entirely.) The Gospels are full of stories that are seemingly about one thing but that tell you about another. By the 4th century A.D., the Latin-speaking Church was calling these types of stories that convey truths through fictions
parabola. This became the Old French
parable, entered English as
parable in the 14th century.
However, the largely illiterate laity didn’t learn the parables of the Gospels by reading them; they were lessons given by the clergy in speeches.
Parabola (something closer to
paraula in Vulgar Latin) took on a broader meaning of “speech” and then just “word.” Further linguistic evolution led this to a number of places, including to the Old French ....

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