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A parable is a picture in words of some niece of human experience, actual or imagined. As such it is a work of art....then, every true parable is a call to a better life and a deeper trust in God, which things are but the Godward and manward sides of true religion, the obverse and reverse of one medal. (quoting T.W. Manson) p. 40

"If the work [of art] operates properly, it is related to the world sequentially as window, mirror, and window.... Thus the work, being at once word and world, leads both somewhere else and terminally to itself."

See through the window of the parable (framing the world), see the reflections of your own and another's connected implicit existential views, then look through the window again (new vision of the world).