Note 30 — Chapter VII · DISCOURSES OF JESUS IN THE FOURTH GOSPEL.
George Eliot translation
E.g. by Tholuck and Lücke. The latter, however, allows that it is rather an incipient than a complete parable. Olshausen also remarks, that the discourses of the Shepherd and the Vine are rather comparisons than parables; and Neander shows himself willing to distinguish the parable presented by the synoptists as a species, under the genus similitude, to which the παροιμίαι of John belong. ↑