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

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.