Christ formulates such a law in connection with the parables of the Talents and the Sower. To him that hath shall be given. From him that hath not shall be taken away. That is a law of morals and religion , as of business and agriculture. One must have in order to make.
Interest requires capital.
Fruit requires not only seed but soil. Similarly, the law of growth as set forth in the parable of the Mustard Seed , is a law common to nature and to the kingdom of God . The great forces in both kingdoms are germinal, enwrapped in small seeds which unfold from within by an inherent power of growth. The element of comparison enters here as between the particular incident imagined or recounted, and all cases of a similar kind . The term parable , however, as employed in ordinary Christian phraseology, is limited to those utterances of Christ which are marked by a complete figurative history or narrative.