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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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<strong>the</strong> rich plain over against Him, where <strong>the</strong> young<br />

com, still in <strong>the</strong> first green <strong>of</strong> its growing, is giving<br />

promise <strong>of</strong> harvest. Like this is <strong>the</strong> Kingdom <strong>of</strong><br />

Heaven which He has come to proclaim. Like what<br />

? Not yet like that harvest, which is still in <strong>the</strong><br />

future, but like that field over <strong>the</strong>re. <strong>The</strong> Sower *<br />

has gone forth to sow <strong>the</strong> Good Seed. If we bear in<br />

mind a mode <strong>of</strong> sowing peculiar (if we are not<br />

mistaken) to those times, <strong>the</strong> Parable gains in<br />

vividness. According to Jewish authorities <strong>the</strong>re<br />

was tw<strong>of</strong>old isowing, as <strong>the</strong> seed was ei<strong>the</strong>r cast<br />

by <strong>the</strong> h<strong>and</strong> (thSidd) or by<br />

Anwh. means <strong>of</strong> cattle (oniitr nSiDD*)- Iii <strong>the</strong><br />

latter case, a sack with<br />

rom botto> holes was filled with com <strong>and</strong> laid on<br />

<strong>the</strong> back <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> animal, so that, A" it moved<br />

onwards, <strong>the</strong> seed was thickly scattered. Thus it<br />

might well be, that it would fall indiscriminately<br />

on beaten roadway,* on<br />

* <strong>The</strong> correct reading in St. Mat*, xiii. ■ With <strong>the</strong>

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