Marketplace, buying, and selling imagery uses prices, purchases, costly exchange, trade, and valuation to teach what is precious, what must be forsaken, and what cannot truly be bought with money.
Marketplace, buying, and selling imagery uses prices, purchases, costly exchange, trade, and valuation to teach what is precious, what must be forsaken, and what cannot truly be bought with money.
A commercial-exchange motif in which buying, selling, price, trade, and market value represent desire, cost, redemption, false security, or incomparable worth.
These examples show how Marketplace, Buying, and Selling Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
buy the truth, and sell it not
Commercial language presents truth as worth acquiring and never trading away.
buy wine and milk without money and without price
Buying imagery is paradoxically used to show the freeness of divine provision.
selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field
The hidden treasure parable uses purchase imagery for incomparable kingdom value.
sold all that he had, and bought it
Pearl imagery uses costly purchase to portray the worth of the kingdom.
go ye rather to them that sell, and buy
Buying imagery in the virgins parable intensifies the warning about readiness.
what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Exchange imagery weighs worldly gain against the value of the soul.
thy money perish with thee
Simon’s attempted purchase exposes the impossibility of buying God’s gift.
ye are bought with a price
Purchase language describes believers as belonging to God through redemption.
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire
Christ uses marketplace language to expose Laodicea’s spiritual poverty.
no man might buy or sell
Buying and selling imagery becomes a sign of coercive worldly allegiance.
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