Every herb, tree and grass yields its own. Gen. 1:11, 12, 29.
Each kind of, has its own body. 1 Cor. 15:38.
SOWING OF,
Time for, called seed-time. Gen, 8:22.
Necessary to Its productiveness. John 12:24. 1 Cor. 15:36.
Required constant diligence. Ecc. 11:4, 6.
Often attended with great waste. Matt. 13:4, 5, 7.
Often attended with danger. Psa. 126:5, 6.
Yearly return of time of sowing, secured by covenant. Gen. 8:21, 22.
The ground carefully plowed, and prepared for. Isa. 28:24, 25.
Often sown beside rivers. Ecc. 11:1. Isa. 32:20.
Often trodden into the ground, by the feet of oxen, &c. Isa. 32:20.
Required to be watered by the rain. Isa. 55:10.
In Egypt required to be artificially watered. Deut. 11:10.
yielded an abundant increase in Canaan. Gen. 26:12. See Matt. 13:23.
MOSAIC LAWS RESPECTING;
Different kinds of, not to be sown in the same field. Lev. 19:19. Deut. 22:9.
If dry, exempted from uncleanness though touched by an unclean thing. Lev. 11:37.
If wet, rendered unclean by contact with an unclean thing. Lev. 11:38.
The tithe of, to be given to God. Lev. 27:30.
Not to be sown during the sabbatical year. Lev. 25:4, 20.
Not to be sown in year of jubilee. Lev. 25:11.
Difference between, and the plant which grows from it, noticed. 1 Cor. 15:37, 38.
THE JEWS PUNISHED BY
Its rotting in the ground. Joel 1:17. Mal. 2:3.
Its yielding but little increase. Isa. 5:10. Hag. 1:6.
Its increase being consumed by locusts, &c. Deut. 28:38. Joel 1:4.
Its increase being consumed by enemies. Lev. 26:16. Deut. 28:33,51.
Its being choked by thorns. Jer. 12:13, with Matt. 13:7.
ILLUSTRATIVE OF
The word of God. Luke 8:11. 1 Peter 1:23.
Spiritual life. 1 John. 3:9.
SOWING, ILLUSTRATIVE OF
Preaching the gospel. Matt. 13:3, 32. 1 Cor. 9:11.
Scattering or dispersing a people. Zech. 10:9.
Christian liberality. Ecc. 11:6. 2 Cor. 9:6.
Men's works producing a corresponding recompense. Job 4:8. Hos. 10:12. Gal. 6:7, 8.
The death of Christ and its effects. John 12:24.
The burial of the body. 1 Cor. 15:36-38.