rest, excelled also in this kind of speaking, yet so as not to speak by his own actions, that was less grave and decent, but to turn into parables such things as offered themselves.  On occasion of the harvest approaching, he admonishes his disciples once and again of the spiritual harvest, John iv. 35. Matth. ix. 37.  Seeing the lilies of the field, he admonishes his disciples about gay clothing, Matth. vi. 28.  In allusion to the present season of fruits, he admonishes his disciples about knowing men by their fruits, Matth. vii. 16.  In the time of the Passover, when trees put forth leaves, he bids his disciples learn a parable from the fig tree:  when its branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh, &c. Matth. xxiv. 32. Luke xxi. 29.  The same day, alluding both to the season of the year and to his passion, which was to be two days after, he formed a parable of the time of fruits approaching, and the murdering of the heir, Matth. xxi. 33.  Alluding at the same time, both to the money-changers whom he had newly driven out of the Temple, and to his passion at hand; he made a parable of a Noble-man going into a far country to receive a kingdom and return, and delivering his goods to his servants, and at his return condemning the slothful servant because he put not his money to the exchangers, Matth. xxv. 14. Luke xix. 12.  Being near the Temple where sheep were kept in folds to be sold for the sacrifices, he spake many things parabolically of sheep, of the shepherd, and of the door of the sheepfold; and discovers that he alluded to the sheepfolds which were to be hired in the market-place, by speaking of such folds as a thief could not enter by the door, nor the shepherd himself open, but a porter opened to the shepherd, John x. 1, 3.  Being in the mount of Olives, Matth. xxxvi. 30. John xiv. 31. a place so fertile that it could not want vines, he spake many things mystically of the Husbandman, and of the vine and its branches, John xv.  Meeting a blind man, he admonished of spiritual blindness, John ix. 39.  At the sight of little children, he described once and again the innocence of the elect, Matth. xviii. 2. xix. 13.  Knowing that Lazarus was dead and should be raised again, he discoursed of the resurrection and life eternal, John xi. 25, 26.  Hearing of the slaughter of some whom Pilate had slain, he admonished of eternal death, Luke xiii. 1.  To his fishermen he spake of fishers of men, Matth. iv. 10. and composed another parable about fishes. Matth. xiii. 47.  Being by the Temple, he spake of the Temple of his body, John ii. 19.  At supper he spake a parable about the mystical supper to come in the kingdom of heaven, Luke xiv.  On occasion of temporal food, he admonished his disciples of spiritual food, and of eating his flesh and drinking