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MATTHEW 13:7 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 13:6Matt 13:8
“And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:”
Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. The thorny soil that produces growth alongside competing plants: the word is received and begins to grow, but the thorns — identified in verse 22 as the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches — grow up alongside and choke the developing plant. The thorny-ground person is not shallow (like the rocky ground) but divided: the word and the world compete for the same soil, and the thorns prove stronger.

Church Fathers on Matthew 13:7

When He had rebuked him that told Him of His mother and His brethren, He then did according to their request; He departed out of the house, having first corrected His brethren for their weak desire of vainglory; He then paid the honour due to His mother, as it is said, 'The same day Jesus went forth out of the house, and not down by the sea aide.

Chrysostom · 4th century

By the words, 'The same day,' he sufficiently shews that these things either followed immediately upon what had gone before, or that many things could not have intervened; unless indeed 'day' here after the Scripture manner signifies a period.

Augustine · 4th century · De Cons. Ev., ii, 41

For not only the Lord’s words and actions, but His journeyings also, and the places in which He works His mighty works and preaches, are full of heavenly sacraments.

Rabanus Maurus · 9th century
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