Seed
Seed
Every herb, tree and grass yields its own - Ge 1:11,12,29
Each kind of, has its own body - 1Co 15:38
SOWING OF
- Time for, called seed time
- Ge 8:22 - Necessary to its productiveness
- Joh 12:24; 1Co 15:36 - Required constant diligence
- Ec 11:4,6 - Often attended with great waste
- Mt 13:4,5,7 - Often attended with danger
- Ps 126:5,6
Yearly return of time of sowing, secured by covenant - Ge 8:21,22
The ground carefully ploughed, and prepared for - Isa 28:24,25
Often sown beside rivers - Ec 11:1; Isa 32:20
Often trodden into the ground, by the feet of oxen - Isa 32:20
Required to be watered by the rain - Isa 55:10
In Egypt required to be artificially watered - De 11:10
Yielded an abundant increase in Canaan - Ge 26:12; Mt 13:23
MOSAIC LAWS RESPECTING
- Different kinds of, not to be sown in the same field
- Le 19:19; De 22:9 - If dry, exempted from uncleanness though touched by an
unclean thing - Le 11:37 - If wet, rendered unclean by contact with an unclean thing
- Le 11:38 - The tithe of, to be given to God
- Le 27:30 - Not to be sown during the sabbatical year
- Le 25:4,20 - Not to be sown in year of jubilee
- Le 25:11
Difference between, and the plant which grows from it, noticed - 1Co 15:37,38
THE JEWS PUNISHED BY
- Its rotting in the ground
- Joe 1:17; Mal 2:3 - Its yielding but little increase
- Isa 5:10; Hag 1:6 - Its increase being consumed by locusts
- De 28:38; Joe 1:4 - Its increase being consume by enemies
- Le 26:16; De 28:33,51 - Its being choked by thorns
- Jer 12:13; Mt 13:7
ILLUSTRATIVE OF
- The word of God
- Lu 8:11; 1Pe 1:23 - Spiritual life
- 1Jo 3:9
SOWING, ILLUSTRATIVE OF