The Lost Coin and the Lost Commandment
Story★★★★In Luke 15:8-9, the woman — representing the church — had ten pieces of silver and lost one. The psalmist describes the law as silver (Psalm 119:72). One piece of silver — one commandment, the fourth — was lost by the church. The woman in the parable used a candle to help search for the lost piece of silver (Luke 15:8). The Word of God is called a candle (Psalm 119:105, margin). God’s house is the church (1 Timothy 3:15). It takes the Bible to find what happened to the lost commandment and how to find it — and the parable ends not with blame for whoever lost it, but with rejoicing that it is found.
The point
Wyatt's allegorical interpretation of the parable of the lost coin: the woman represents the church, the ten pieces are the commandments, the lost piece is the fourth (Sabbath), and God's Word is the candle to find it.