“Le bon Samaritain” (1880)
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This is one of the most beloved and memorable of all of Christ’s parables.
My friend and former FARMS colleague Jack Welch offers a very interesting perspective on it here:
“The Good Samaritan: A Type and Shadow of the Plan of Salvation”
I discussed a fascinatingly different translation of this story in a column that I published late last year:
You can easily guess what the “unprintable racist epithet” is; President Obama used it a couple of days ago.
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