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
Preaching the gospel Mt 13:3,32; 1Co 9:11
Scattering or dispersing a people Zec 10:9
Christian liberality Ec 11:6; 2Co 9:6
Men's works producing a corresponding recompence Job 4:8; Ho 10:12; Ga 6:7,8
The death of Christ and its effects Joh 12:24
The burial of the body 1Co 15:36-38