March 26: Allegory
Ezekiel 17: 1-10
Allegories like Spenser's The Fairie Queene are powerful tools for teaching lessons, ways to point out our weaknesses and the results of those failings as well as qualities to emulate. In the passage from Ezekiel, a leader of Judah failed to trust in God and keep his word, choosing to break a carefully wrought treaty with a foe in a failed doublecross. He paid for his faithlessness. This is an allegorical reminder of the importance of keeping faith.
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