An explanation of the parables

But had these things been clearly explained, for what ends the whole was done, at the time the Books went out, then the unbelieving world might have said they went out to the wisdom of men, or an artful invention of your own; therefore I concealed the mystery, and said I sent them out to try the wisdom of men, and then a further explanation would be given to you. But now discern from the wisdom of man: where is the man that weighed deeply the manner your Book began; the despair that followed you; the words I spoke within you, what I should come in power to do, before I ordered the Parables simple stories used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson to be brought forward, to show you the likeness from Types and Shadows symbolic people, events, or objects in the Old Testament that prefigure truths in the New Testament.

Now you say in your heart, this was never discerned by you before I explained it; neither do you believe it was by any; then now I ask mankind, how they can discern to understand their Bibles, to trace my footsteps through, from the foundation of the world to this day, to mark the beginning and the ending, and know how to place all things aright, what was my Wisdom and my Decrees, that went through so many ages, if they cannot understand my Wisdom in the Parables I brought forward to place with the words I spoke in you at first? If they cannot understand my meaning and the manner of my working of what was done in a few months, how can they explain my meaning and my wisdom in the Scriptures, worked through in so many thousand years? So if the believers in my Visitation a divine appearance or communication to you say, these things were too high for them to understand and bring together, and did not deeply discern the beginning, in what manner it was united together; how shall the professors of the Scripture, that pretend to believe