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(Rom. 8:14–21; Matt. 9:9–13) Anyone whose spiritual needs are awakened under the influence of the fear of God and the demands of conscience, develops a kind of feeling with which he guesses the meaning of speeches related to subjects of the spiritual field, even if they were clothed in tributary form. For such people, the parable does not hide the truth, but reveals it even more clearly. Anyone who does not have such an internal structure, when he hears tributary speech about spiritual things, does not understand anything about it. But if he had not been offered a word about these subjects in a trivial form, then he would have understood only the words, but would not have understood the essence of the matter: it would have gone against all his concepts and would have seemed to him an incongruity, at which he would not have hesitated to mock. This is precisely the reason the Lord gave why He speaks to the people in parables. Those who have the inclination of spirituality will understand the parable, but those who do not, at least don’t tell them. “For seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear and do not understand... For the heart of these people has become hardened” (Matthew 13:12–15) Meanwhile, the parable did not deprive those capable of seeing the hidden truth of the proper edification: “Whoever has, to him will be given and he will have abundance” (Matthew 13:12). You might be interested in: