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Looking at Aeschylus\u2019s Prometheus Bound for an article, I came across this statement: Speaking of the senselessness of men before Prometheus gave them sense, he describes men as \u201cseeing, they saw amiss, and hearing heard not.\u201d The similarity to Jesus\u2019 description of His reasons for telling parables is pretty striking, though I don\u2019t know if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classics"],"yoast_head":"\nPrometheus Bound<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Looking at Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound for an article, I came across this statement: Speaking of the senselessness of men before Prometheus gave\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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