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MATTHEW 13:33 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 13:32Matt 13:34
“Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.”
He told them another parable. The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened. The leaven parable is the fourth: the kingdom works invisibly through the entire batch. Three measures of flour is a very large amount — enough to feed a hundred people — and the leaven that works through all of it communicates the comprehensive transformation that the kingdom produces. The hidden working of the leaven communicates that the kingdom's advance is not always visible but is nonetheless certain.

Church Fathers on Matthew 13:33

The same thing the Lord sets forth in this parable of the leaven; as much as to say to His disciples, As leaven changes into its own kind much wheat-flour, so shall ye change the whole world. Note here the wisdom of the Saviour; He first brings instances from nature, proving that as the one is possible so is the other. And He says not simply 'put,' but 'hid;' as much as to say, So ye, when ye shall be cast down by your enemies, then ye shall overcome them. And so leaven is…

Chrysostom · 4th century

The 'saturn' is a kind of measure in use in Palestine containing one modius and a half.

Jerome · 4th century

Or, The leaven signifies love, because it causes activity and fermentation; by the woman He means wisdom. By the three measures He intends either those three things in man, with the whole heart, with the whole soul, with the whole mind; or the three degrees of fruitfulness, the hundred-fold, the sixty-fold, the thirty-fold; or those three kinds of men, Noe, Daniel, and Job.

Augustine · 4th century · Quaest. Ev., i, 12
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