Speaking Parables (or letter to a friend) April 6, 1991
TALK In parables
(or letter to a friend)
"ocular habent et non Videbus" ("They have eyes and not see")
"Os habent et non Loquentur" ("They have mouths and do not speak")
"Manus habent et non Palpabunt" ("They have hands and do not touch")
"Aures habent et non Audient" ("They have ears and hear not")
St. Paul told the Jews of Rome:
"They are very certain the words the Holy Spirit told his parents through prophet Isaiah:
Go and tell your people to hear
For over not understand,
For more they see does not know, because
the heart of this village has been toughened
,
stopped their ears and closed their eyes,
Lest your eyes see,
Let your ears hear, understand
May your heart, That they become
And I cure.
Know then that this salvation of God will be preached to the pagans. Them if they heard it.
At these words the Jews were removed heated discussion. " (Acts 28.25-29).
And it was logical to withdraw "heated discussion" had heard these words many times the Jews.
already had told the Isaiah (6:9-10), because God had Isaiah entrusted to proclaim his word to the people to make this the "accept or reject" task, indeed, difficult, because most of the people and their leaders, they would close their ears to the message that would save them, which should save them.
Because of this willful refusal, before the evil was committed by "routine" or ignorance come ahead of a decision "free and responsible", which will attract the trial of God, and that results in eternal damnation because done deliberately, on purpose.
is why Jesus, knowing that the hearts of some men is hard, he spoke in parables; not "vouch for their ills."
And he explains to his disciples, at their request, as follows:
"For you have been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but they did not. Anyone who has, you will be more and still have an abundance, but did not have will get what you have. So I speak in parables, because they look and not see, hear and do not hear or understand. This complies with them the prophecy of Isaiah, which says:
.
As much as hear not understand,
more they see does not know,
because the heart of this people
has hardened,
have their ears plugged and closed his eyes for your eyes
not see,
their ears to hear, and do not become
,
and I do not heal.
Happy, however, are your eyes because they see, their ears because they hear happy. I assure you that many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see and not see it, hear what you heard and did not hear "(Matthew 13,10-17).
Jesus knew positively, because he knows the human heart, which many would not want to accept their preaching, then hold them accountable for not speaking to them in "parables", which often end with phrases like: "He who has ears you hear "or even," He who can understand them understanding. " Because if he had spoken directly would have made "responsible for their acts" would no longer be through ignorance or habit, but that would make the full exercise of their freedom.
"Free and responsible for their acts", it certainly condemn them and Jesus did not want his condemnation, then speaks in parables so that reasoning, thinking, they could become.
say in the meetings of catechesis that when someone commits a sin without knowing who committed it, not sin, but instead thinking or knowing that he is doing, he has sinned.
And I give this example: Suicide is a mortal sin. Suppose someone takes a glass of cold milk, thinking it is a poison with suicidal intent. This person will not die, but he has sinned and seriously.
Now suppose that this person will take a glass of poison, without knowing that it was, thinking it was cold milk, with the intention of cooling, this person will surely die, unless, of course, to be served quickly , but has not sinned.
is why, dear friends, that I sometimes I speak in "parables," because I love you and do not want the hardening of your heart but your reflection.
Book "Fernanda" by Aníbal Luis Puricelli Pinel - Ed Looks - Second Edition: October 2005.
