- 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
The New Topical Text Book
Seed
The New Topical Text Book, R. A. Torrey (1897). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.