What is the key to understanding a parable, an allegory, or any scriptural story?

Thomas R. Valletta

The Prophet Joseph Smith declared: “I have a key by which I understand the scriptures. I enquire, what was the question which drew out the answer, or caused Jesus to utter the parable? … To ascertain its meaning, we must dig up the root and ascertain what it was that drew the saying out of Jesus” (History of the Church, 5:261).

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