Parable vs Sermon - What's the difference?
parable | sermon |
A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy
To represent by parable.
(obsolete) That can easily be prepared or procured; obtainable.
*, vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.306:
Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
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, title= A lengthy speech of reproval.
(poetic, obsolete) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
(poetic, obsolete) To tutor; to lecture.
* 1607 , , II. ii. 177:
As nouns the difference between parable and sermon
is that parable is a short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy while sermon is religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.As verbs the difference between parable and sermon
is that parable is to represent by parable while sermon is to discourse to or of, as in a sermon.As an adjective parable
is that can easily be prepared or procured; obtainable.parable
English
(wikipedia parable)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (=modern) .Noun
(en noun)- ''In the New Testament the parables told by Jesus convey His message, as in "The parable of the prodigal son"
- ''Catholic sermons normally draw on at least one Biblical lecture, often parables .
See also
* fable * allegory * pericope * simileVerb
(parabl)- Which by the ancient sages was thus parabled . — Milton.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- The most parable and easy, and about which many are employed, is to teach a school, turn lecturer or curate [...].
- (Sir Thomas Browne)
Anagrams
* ----sermon
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon , he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
Verb
(en verb)- (Spenser)
- Come, sermon me no further.