Subject: What does lamp and oil symbolize? |
Bible Note: Brad, Oops! You're 100 percent correct. Someone told me that once and I swallowed it. Thank you for educating me on the glyceridic structure of olive oil! Having said that it would be a shame to ignore scriptural symbolism where it occurs (even if a poor uneducated poster makes an irrelevant mistake with his oil definition!). Certain things in the Bible hold symbolism - light, dark, gold, water, olive oil etc. and it is always an interesting study to see how the meaning of these symbols can help inform our understanding of scripture. The parable can be understood without further investigation as can much of the gospel. As Paul says - (speaking symbolically of course!) there is milk and there is meat. |