24Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods. …
For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-29)This parable, which (like many of our Saviour’s parables) is borrowed from the husbandman’s calling, is ushered in with a solemn preface demanding attention, He that has ears to hear, let him hear , hear and understand, Isa. 28:23. I. The parable here is plain enough, that the husbandman applies himself to the business of his calling with a great deal of pains and prudence, secundum artem—accordin…
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