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Parables ????!!!!
I don't think so!
below a nice icon representing Jesus the God of mercy carrying a sword in order to kill The Prophet Balaam !
the main source is an arabic-orthodoxe web site :










http://st-takla.org/Full-Free-Coptic...2_B/B_207.html

On further reading of this post I realise you think the person with the sword depicts Jesus Himself. I'm not sure where you get this impression, but to be clear the story of Balaam is found in the Old Testament, and the biblical account has it that the being sent with a sword to exact judgement upon Balaam was an Angel of The Lord... Not Jesus Christ.

Numbers 22:21-39


Balaam’s Donkey


21 Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey and went with the Moabite officials. 22 But God was very angry when he went, and the angel of the Lord stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him. 23 When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, it turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat it to get it back on the road.

Peace