Difference between revisions of "Fable"

<p> '''Fable.''' [[A]] fable is ''a narrative in which, being irrational, and sometimes inanimate, are, for the purpose of moral instruction, feigned to act and speak with human interests and passions.'' - Encyclopedia Britannica. The fable differs from the parable in that - </p> <p> 1. The parable always relates what actually takes place, and is true to fact, which the fable is not; and </p> <p> 2. The parable teaches the higher heavenly and spiritual truths, but the fable, only earthly moralities. </p> <p> Of the fable, as distinguished from the parable, we have but two examples in the Bible: </p> <p> i. That of the trees choosing their king, addressed by Jotham to the men of Shechem, &nbsp;Judges 9:8-15. </p> <p> ii. That of the cedar of Lebanon and the thistle, as the answer of [[Jehoash]] to the challenge of Amaziah. &nbsp;2 Kings 14:9. </p> <p> The fables of false teachers claiming to belong to the Christian Church, alluded to by writers of the New Testament, &nbsp;1 Timothy 1:4; &nbsp;1 Timothy 4:7; &nbsp;Titus 1:14; &nbsp;2 Peter 1:16, do not appear to have had the character of fables, properly so called. </p> <p> ''See '' '''Parable''' ''.'' </p>