{"query": "A parable — Meaning lost", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_2a58c312be03", "title": "A parable — Meaning lost", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man searched for the meaning of his life under every stone in the field. He turned the field upside down by evening and found nothing. He sat down to weep and saw that the field he had broken had be"}, {"id": "card_n_ad1729369430", "title": "A parable — Returning to first", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man returned to the field of his youth. The well he had drunk from was still there but the path was overgrown. He cleared the path himself and drank. The water tasted the same. He had not lost the w"}, {"id": "card_n_bb89dbd4d157", "title": "A parable — Water anomaly", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In the deep of winter the lake froze. The fish below thought all was lost. But the water near the bed grew warmer than the ice above, for the maker had made water unlike all other things — densest jus"}, {"id": "card_n_23818bc5d8fe", "title": "A parable — Authority", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man asked a passing stranger where to build his house. The stranger pointed to a place by a river. The man built there. Soon the rains came, and the river rose, and the house was lost. The stranger "}, {"id": "card_n_04502b1ebf95", "title": "A parable — Fear failure", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A servant was given one talent and feared losing it, so he buried it in the ground. When the master returned, the talent was safe — exactly as it had been given. 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Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.\n2. The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”\n3. He told them this"}, {"id": "card_src_word_meaning", "title": "meaning", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "meaning: (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified — syn: significance, signification, import · (noun) the idea that is intended — syn: substance · (adjective) rich in significance"}, {"id": "card_src_word_well_meaning", "title": "well-meaning", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "well-meaning: (adjective) not unfriendly or threatening — syn: unthreatening · (adjective) marked by good intentions though often producing unfortunate results — syn: well-intentioned, well-meant"}, {"id": "card_n_60896b51388e", "title": "Easton: Proverb", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A trite maxim; a similitude; a parable. 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