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# Mt 13:5
\\Some fell upon stony places.\\ Where the rocks that jut out
of the hills into the plain had a very thin covering of earth.
Much of Palestine is stony.
(PNT 76)
00401
# Mt 13:6
\\And when the sun had risen, they were scorched.\\ It was
not rooted in that deep, moist soil which would have enabled it
to resist the scorching heat of the sun.
(PNT 76)
00402
# Mt 13:7
\\And some fell among thorns.\\ More literally, "into the
thorns." The traveller, today, finds Palestine literally a land
of thorns, of thistles, brambles, and thorny bushes.
\\Thorns sprung up, and choked them.\\ Or, as Wycliffe
renders it, "The thorns sprang up and strangled it." The thorns
suffocated the growing plant.
(PNT 76)
00403
# Mt 13:8
\\But others fell into good ground.\\ The goodness of this
last soil consists in its qualities being precisely the reverse
of the other three soils. It was not hard, stony, or weedy.
\\Some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.\\
Thirty-fold is now really a first-rate crop, even for such
plains as Esdraelon, just below Nazareth. But in the time of
Christ there might be realized, in favourable circumstances, a
hundred-fold. Intelligent gentlemen (in the plain of Esdraelon)
maintain that they have themselves reaped more than a
hundred-fold.--"Land and Book."
(PNT 76)
00404
# Mt 13:9
\\Let him hear.\\ Give heed and seek to understand.
(PNT 76)
00406
# Mt 13:11
\\Given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom.\\ The
unexpected way in which Christ would fulfill prophecy was a mystery
to many. That the Messiah would be "lifted up" on the cross, suffer
and then be raised to sit on his glorious throne was a mystery to the
uninstructed, and still is today.
# 1Co 2:6,11
(PL)
00407
# Mt 13:12
\\Whoever hath.\\ Those who have been made some spiritual
progress will go on, and have greater knowledge.
\\Whoever hath not.\\ No desire for spiritual knowledge.
Such shall become dwarfed, and lose even their capacity for
spiritual things; a truth constantly illustrated. Whoever uses
his opportunities will grow; whoever abuses them will lose them.
(PNT 77)
00408
# Mt 13:13
\\Because they seeing see not.\\ Do not see in the true light
on account of their spiritual ignorance and depravity. The
desire to see spiritually is essential to clear perceptions of
truth.
(PNT 77)
00409
# Mt 13:14-16
\\The prophecy of Isaiah.\\ See
# Isa 6:9,10
Isaiah describes a spiritual state that existed in the time of
Christ, and is often met still, when, on account of hardness of
heart and love of the world, men cannot understand the gospel
and be converted. It is caused by their own fault. If they would
fall out with sin, and come to Christ with a broken and contrite
spirit, they would be healed.
(PNT 77)
00412
# Mt 13:17
\\Desired to see [the things] which ye see.\\ The prophets
and righteous had longed for the coming of Christ. His disciples
enjoyed it.
(PNT 77)
00413
# Mt 13:18-23
\\Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.\\ The seed sown is
His Word, the Gospel of the Kingdom. The soil is human hearts. Four
kinds are described:
(1) The \\wayside\\ hearer; the forgetful hearer on whom no effect is
produced. The seed is snatched away and does not germinate.
(2) The \\stony\\ hearer; the heart that exhibits a positive response
to the gospel but lacks good roots. He falls away at the first
sign of persecution.
(3) The \\thorny soil\\; the heart that takes in the Word, but is so
full of worldly cares that he has no strength to reproduce. This
one bears no fruit for the Lord.
(4) The \\good soil\\; the good and honest heart; the heart that
receives and retains the truth. In such a heart the seed will
grow and reproduce.
(PNT 77-78 edited)
00419
# Mt 13:24
\\Kingdom of heaven is likened to a man who sowed.\\ The kingdom
of heaven is not like likened to the "field," nor to the "enemy" who
sowed the tares, but to "the man who sowed the good seed." The
kingdom does what the Sower is doing. It sows the good seed.
\\Good seed.\\ It is declared in verse 19 that the seed is
the "word of the kingdom," and in verse 38 that the "good seed"
are "the children of the kingdom."
# 13:19,38
These are those in whose heart the good seed has fallen, and
their new lives, as children of the kingdom, are the fruit of
the good seed.
\\In his field.\\ What then is represented by the field?
(1) It is not the kingdom, or church, for this is represented
by "the man that sowed good seed in his field."
(2) It is the place where the good seed is sown by the Son of
man or through his agency; in other words, the place where
the gospel is preached to men.
(3) Verse 38 states that "the field is the world."
# 13:38
(PNT 78 edited)
00420
# Mt 13:25
\\But while men slept.\\ During sleep is the time of the
tare-sowing.
\\His enemy came and sowed.\\ It is by no means uncommon for
the malice in the East to show itself in this way. A wicked
person may do great injury with little chance of detection.
\\Tares.\\ The tare or darnel is, like our chess or cheat, a
kind of bastard wheat, looking like wheat.
(PNT 78)
00422
# Mt 13:27
\\From which then hath it tares?\\ When the harvest was near
at hand the difference was seen.
(PNT 78)
00423
# Mt 13:28
\\An enemy hath done this.\\ The great enemy, the prince of
the world, who sows evil seed in human hearts.
\\Wilt thou then that we go and gather them?\\ It has been
assumed by one class of interpreters that this a question
whether discipline shall be administered upon recreant church
members. If the field in which the tares are growing with the
wheat is "the world," then it refers to something quite
different.
(PNT 78-79)
00424
# Mt 13:29
\\Nay; lest . . . ye root up also the wheat with them.\\ The
roots of the wheat and tares were often so intertwined that one
could not be pulled up without the other.
(PNT 79)
00425
# Mt 13:30
\\Let both grow together until the harvest.\\ The time of
separation will come at last. The righteous shall not always be
vexed by the presence and deeds of evil doers. Harvest time will
come, and that is the time of separation. The tares, ripened and
manifest, can easily be sifted out from the wheat. For the
application of the parable,
see note on "Mt 13:36"
(PNT 79)
00426
# Mt 13:31
\\Like a grain of mustard seed.\\ Compare
# Lu 13:18-21
The Jews grew mustard in their gardens. Its small round seed is
symbolic of the kingdom of heaven, which was very small at its
beginning.
# Mr 4:31
(PNT 70 edited)
00427
# Mt 13:32
\\Which indeed is the least of all seeds.\\ The least of all
the field or garden seeds sown in Palestine.
\\But when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs.\\ All
herbs cultivated in the fields or garden of Palestine. Dr.
Hooker measured a mustard-plant in the Jordan Valley ten feet
high. Thus, the kingdom, from an insignificant beginning, grows
to a mighty magnitude.
(PNT 79)
00428
# Mt 13:33
\\The kingdom of heaven is like leaven.\\ A bit of leavened dough
from an unbaked loaf was commonly used in baking. Frequently leaven
symbolized evil, but it is used favorably here and in:
# Lev 7:13 23:17 Lu 13:21
\\Three measures of meal.\\ An ephah of flour. A small quantity
of leaven is "hid" in the large batch of dough. It eventually
permeates and changes the whole batch \\till all was leavened.\\ The
Parable teaches that the kingdom of Christ would grow and multiply
until it eventually changed the entire world.
(PNT 79 edited)
00429
# Mt 13:34
\\Without a parable he spoke not.\\ On that occasion. His
whole discourse to the multitude was made up of parables.
(PNT 79)
00430
# Mt 13:35
\\Which was spoken by the prophet.\\ See
# Ps 78:2
(PNT 79)
00431
# Mt 13:36-43
\\Expound to us the parable of the tares.\\ The parable in
# 13:24-30
By a comparison we may learn:
(1) The kingdom is likened to a man sowing good seed in his
field.
(2) The Sower is the Son of man, who sows by means of his
kingdom.
(3) The good seed is the word of God as seen in its fruits,
Christ's followers.
(4) The field is the world. It is Christ's field. All power is
given to him in heaven and in earth. His kingdom is
rightfully the whole earth, but much of it is held still by
the enemy, who has to be conquered. He will prevail
finally, and the kingdoms of the earth shall become the
kingdom of the Lord and his Christ.
(5) The wheat raised from the good seed is the "children of the
kingdom," the disciples of Christ converted by his word.
(6) The tares are not bad church members, but bad men; those
who have been under the influence of the wicked one.
(7) The righteous and wicked are to remain in the earth
together. The righteous are not to exterminate the wicked.
The evil and the good will be mixed until judgment day.
(8) Then all shall be gathered at the throne of judgment. The
righteous shall "inherit the kingdom." All that are wicked
shall be cast out of the kingdom. An eternal separation
shall take place.
(PNT 80)
00439
# Mt 13:44
\\The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field.\\
Valuables which, with us, are entrusted to banks, are in the
East buried in fields and gardens to save them from robbers and
accidents.
The parable teaches the immense value, priceless, of the
gospel; and that one who finds out that value will give up
everything else in order to possess himself of the privileges
and hopes of the kingdom.
(PNT 80)
00440
# Mt 13:45
\\Like a merchant seeking fine pearls.\\ Pearls were then
esteemed as the most valuable ornaments, and were sought by
merchants on distant shores, the most valuable being brought
from the Indian Ocean.
(PNT 80)
00441
# Mt 13:46
\\When he had found one pearl of great price.\\ He was
willing to invest everything he had in this pearl of surpassing
beauty and worth.
(PNT 81)
00442
# Mt 13:47
\\The kingdom of heaven is like a net.\\ The Saviour's
illustrations all relate to his audience. Many were farmers,
merchants, or fishermen; A drag net or seine is meant.
\\Gathered of every kind.\\ Here again, as in the parable of
the Tares, it is taught that, at the end of the world, the
angels shall sever the wicked from the just.
(PNT 81 edited)
00443
# Mt 13:48
\\When it was full.\\ The fishermen cannot stop to sort while
they are drawing the nest. Nor can the preachers of the gospel
always distinguish.
(PNT 81)
00444
# Mt 13:49
\\So shall it be at the end of the world.\\ Then, not men,
but the angels, under the direction of the Son of Man, shall
sever the wicked from the just.
(PNT 81)
00445
# Mt 13:50
\\Shall cast them into the furnace of fire.\\ Here is
repeated, word for word, the language of
# 13:42,50
The tares, the chaff, the corrupt trees, the barren tree, are
all represented as burned, and here also the wicked are cast
into a furnace. While I suppose that the language is a figure,
it can only be understood as indicating that the sufferings of
Gehenna, the abode of the wicked, are intense. See
# 8:12
(PNT 81)
00447
# Mt 13:52
\\Every scribe [who is] instructed\\, etc. Such will be able
to furnish rich and suitable spiritual food. Scribes were
theological teachers.
(PNT 81)
00449
# Mt 13:54
\\When he had come into his own country.\\ To Nazareth, where
he was brought up. Compare
# Mr 6:1-6 Lu 4:14-29
\\He taught them in their synagogue.\\ On the Sabbath day.
# Mr 6:2
\\Where hath this [man] this wisdom?\\ While admitting it,
they were offended at it.
# 13:58
(PNT 81)