Even though he called allegorizers "clerical jugglers performing monkey tricks," Luther himself was known to engage in the occasional allegory.
His interpretation of the Good Samaritan:
the man going down to Jericho = Adam and all humankind
the robbers = devils who robbed and wounded us
the priest = fathers (Noah, Abraham) before Moses
the Levite = priesthood of the Old Testament
the good Samaritan = Lord Jesus Christ
oil = grace
from Robert H. Stein, "The Parables of Jesus in Recent Study," in Word and World 5/3 (1985), 249.
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