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Parental Love as a Metaphor for Divine-Human Love
Patterson, Richard D.
Patterson, Richard D.
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"Aristotle once remarked, “Everything said metaphorically is obscure.” 1 By this the great Greek philosopher indicated that figures of speech lack a certain degree of the clarity of a direct statement. 2 Nevertheless, the use of metaphorical language forms a basic means of human communication. 3 Indeed, one might say that A. T. Robertson’s remark that in one sense “words are metaphors, sometimes with the pictured flower still blooming, sometimes with the blossom blurred” has distinct validity. 4 Moreover, as L. Ryken demonstrates, a high degree of richness exists in metaphorical language that brings not only freshness and vividness to an expression but tends to make a statement more memorable. By their very nature metaphors “force a reader to ponder or meditate on a statement”"
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2003
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