Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them — the path-soil people are those in whom the word finds no penetration. As soon as they hear it — the immediacy indicates a complete failure of reception, not a delayed failure. Satan comes and takes away the word: the birds of the parable are named as the personal agent of the word's removal. The path-soil condition is not described as a moral failure but as a hardness that leaves the word exposed and vulnerable. The same proclamation that penetrates good soil bounces off hard soil and is immediately vulnerable to removal.

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