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*Question*
Bro.
Please explain about Ten virgin’s parable in English or Tamil.
I
don't want interpretation. I want to know how the people of Jesus time might
have understood it in their cultural context.
Why
should the door be closed on wedding day. What is role of virgins.
*Answer* :
The
“lamps” used on such occasions were rather “torches” or “flambeaux.”
They were
made by winding rags around pieces of iron or earthenware, sometimes hollowed
so as to contain oil, and fastened to handles of wood.
These torches
were dipped in oil, and gave a large light.
Marriage
“ceremonies” in the East were conducted with great pomp and solemnity. The
ceremony of marriage was performed commonly in the open air, on the banks of a
stream.
Both the
bridegroom and bride were attended by friends. They were escorted in a
palanquin, carried by four or more persons. After the ceremony of marriage
succeeded a feast of seven days if the bride was a virgin, or three days if she
was a widow.
This feast
was celebrated in her father’s house. At the end of that time the bridegroom
conducted the bride with great pomp and splendor to his own home.
This was
done in the evening, or at night (Jer 7:34; Jer 25:10; Jer 33:11).
Many
friends and relations attended them; and besides those who went with them from
the house of the bride, there was another company that came out from the house
of the bridegroom to meet them and welcome them.
These were
probably female friends and relatives of the bridegroom, who went out to
welcome him and his new companion to their home.
These are
the virgins mentioned in this parable. Not knowing precisely the time when the
procession would come, they probably went out early, and waited until they
should see indications of its approach.
After
waiting two or three hours, at length, near midnight, it was announced, in the
very words of Scripture, ‘Behold the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.’
All the persons employed now lighted their lamps, and ran with them in their
hands to fill up their stations in the procession.
Some of
them had lost their lights and were unprepared, but it was then too late to
seek them, and the cavalcade moved forward to the house of the bride, at which
place the company entered a large and splendidly illuminated area before the
house, covered with an awning, where a great multitude of friends, dressed in
their best apparel, were seated upon mats.
The
bridegroom was carried in the arms of a friend, and placed in a superb seat in
the midst of the company, where he sat a short time, and then went into the
house, the door of which was immediately shut and guarded by sepoys.
What a
wonderful illustration our Lord did with respect to the Kingdom of Heaven.
*Eddy Joel*,
PhD
Preacher –
The Churches of Christ
Teacher –
World Bible School
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