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Starting from the original parable, different versions of the story have been written, which are described in books and on the internet under titles such as The Taoist Farmer, The Farmer and his Horse, The Father, His Son and the Horse, The Old Man Loses a Horse, etc. The story is mostly cited in philosophical or religious texts and management ...
("The wise tell us that a nail keeps a shoe, a shoe a horse, a horse a man, a man a castle, that can fight.") [7] For sparinge of a litel cost, Fulofte time a man hath lost, The large cote for the hod. ("For sparing a little cost often a man has lost the large coat for the hood.") [8] [whose translation?] [9]
Printable version; In other projects ... The old man lost his horse; Parable of the Olive Tree; ... Parable of the drowning man; Parable of the Poisoned Arrow;
The Old Cat and the Young Mouse (Le vieux chat et la jeune souris, XII.5) The Old Man and his Sons (Le vieillard et ses fils, IV.18) The Old Man and the Ass (Le vieillard et l'âne, VI.8) Phoebus and Boreas (Phébus et Borée, VI.3) The thieves and the ass (Les voleurs et l’âne, I.13) The torrent and the river (Le torrent et la rivière ...
Many of Jesus's parables refer to simple everyday things, such as a woman baking bread (the parable of the Leaven), a man knocking on his neighbor's door at night (the parable of the Friend at Night), or the aftermath of a roadside mugging (the parable of the Good Samaritan); yet they deal with major religious themes, such as the growth of the ...
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The fable of how the horse lost its liberty in the course of settling a petty conflict exists in two versions involving either a stag or a boar and is numbered 269 in the Perry Index. [1] When the story is told in a political context, it warns against seeking a remedy that leaves one worse off than before.
The parable of the Good Samaritan is the theme for the Austrian Christian Charity commemorative coin, minted 12 March 2003. This coin shows the Good Samaritan with the wounded man, on his horse, as he takes him to an inn for medical attention. An older coin with this theme is the American "Good Samaritan Shilling" of 1652. [67]