Notes on the parables of the New Testament

Ballou's first major book, published the year before the Treatise on Atonement. Taking up the parables most often preached as pictures of damnation — the tares, the net, the rich man and Lazarus, the sheep and the goats — he argues that each, read in context, concerns God's dealings with people in this world, not an endless hell in the next. The book set the pattern for a whole genre of Universalist scriptural commentary and remained in print for half a century.

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