This week’s Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: The 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time
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This Week's Gospel: Matt 14: 13 - 21.
(3rd-Aug-2008) The 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A
They all ate as much as the wanted.
This reading comprises most of the caput given, six of the eight paragraphs, and is introduced by the last two paragraphs of the previous caput. The reading is richly interwoven from all four Gospels.
LXXX. Ubi Ihesus in deserto de quinque panibus ·V· milia hominum saturavit.
(Where Jesus, in the desert, with five loaves, satisfied five thousand men.)
79: 13
When Jesus had heard of this, he retired from thence by a boat, into a desert place apart, and the multitudes having heard of it, followed him on foot out of the cities.
14
And he coming forth saw a great multitude, and had compassion on them, and healed their sick.
80: 1
And when it was evening, the twelve came and said to him: Send away the multitude, that, going into the towns and villages round about, they may lodge and get victuals; for we are here in a desert place.
2
But Jesus said to these: They have no need to go: give them something to eat.
3
Philip answered him: Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them that every one may take a little.
4
And he saith to them: How many loaves have you? One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, saith to him: There is a boy here that hath five barley loaves and two fishes. But what are these among so many, unless perhaps, we should go and buy food for all this multitude. He said to them: Bring them hither to me.
5
And he commanded them that they should make them all sit down by companies upon the green grass, and they sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.
6
And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven and blessed them: and he broke and distributed to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes. And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up what remained, twelve full baskets of fragments. And the number of them that did eat, was five thousand men, besides women and children.
{7
And forthwith he commanded his disciples to go up into the boat, and to go before him over the water, to Bethsaida, until he dismissed the people.
8
Now those men, when they had seen what a miracle Jesus had done, said: This is of a truth the prophet that is to come into the world. Jesus therefore, when he knew that they would come to take him by force and make him king, fled, and having dismissed the multitude, he went into a mountain alone to pray. }
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
This week's Gospel: The 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time
This week’s Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: The 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time
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This Week's Gospel: Matt 13: 44 – 52.
(27th-Jul-2008) The 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A
He sells everything he owns and buys the field.
This reading, taken entirely from Matthew, comprises the caput given. However, the chapter boundary as shown in the Codex Fuldensis, here differ from those in the Codex Sangallensis, and with context. I recommend the Sangallen boundary, which also coincides with the specified ending of this weeks reading.
The failure of Victor’s capita to coincide with context indicates that they were originally marginal notes, and not exactly placed.
LXXVII. De thesauro abscondito in agro et negotiationem margaritarum, sagena missa in mare et de patre familias qui profert de thesauro suo nova et vetera.
(Of the treasure hidden in the field, the business of the pearls, a net cast into the sea, and the householder who bringeth forth out of his treasure, new things and old.)
77: 1
The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. Which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
2
Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good pearls. Who when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, and sold all that he had, and bought it.
3
Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kinds of fishes. Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast forth.
4
So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
5
Have ye understood all these things? They say to him: Yes. He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.
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This Week's Gospel: Matt 13: 44 – 52.
(27th-Jul-2008) The 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A
He sells everything he owns and buys the field.
This reading, taken entirely from Matthew, comprises the caput given. However, the chapter boundary as shown in the Codex Fuldensis, here differ from those in the Codex Sangallensis, and with context. I recommend the Sangallen boundary, which also coincides with the specified ending of this weeks reading.
The failure of Victor’s capita to coincide with context indicates that they were originally marginal notes, and not exactly placed.
LXXVII. De thesauro abscondito in agro et negotiationem margaritarum, sagena missa in mare et de patre familias qui profert de thesauro suo nova et vetera.
(Of the treasure hidden in the field, the business of the pearls, a net cast into the sea, and the householder who bringeth forth out of his treasure, new things and old.)
77: 1
The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. Which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
2
Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good pearls. Who when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, and sold all that he had, and bought it.
3
Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kinds of fishes. Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast forth.
4
So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
5
Have ye understood all these things? They say to him: Yes. He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
This week's Gospel: The 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time
This week’s Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: The 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time
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This Week's Gospel: Matt 13: 1 – 23.
(20th-Jul-2008) The 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A
Let them both grow till the harvest.
This reading, taken mainly from Matthew, is one of the few places where the Matthean sequence is disturbed. There may be some doubt as to whether the conventional order has been modified by the harmonizer, or whether he is a witness to an older order. Interweaving is light, with a small amount from Luke, and even less from Mark.
The result of the re-ordering is to insert the capita LXXI, to LXXIII, and part of LXXIIII into the sequence starting with LXX, and ending with LXXV. It might be thought that this was to improve the continuity of Luke, but actually, the Lukan sequence remains as if passed through a shredder.
Most of this week’s reading has, due to the re-ordering,already been given last week. What difference there is comprises omitting the first two capita from last week’s reading, and adding the subsequent caput after the last.
LXXII. De eo qui seminavit bonum semen in agro suo et de zizania.
(Of him who sowed good seed in his field, and of the burdock.)
LXXIII. De grano sinapis.
(Of the grain of mustard seed.)
LXXIIII. De fermento quod abscondit mulier et alia multa discipulis.
(Of the leaven which a woman hid, and many other things to the disciples.)
LXXV. Ubi discipulis disseret parabulam seminantis.
(Where, with the disciples, He discusses the parable of the sower.)
LXXVI. Qui seminat semen et vadit dormitum vel surgit et discipulis parabulam zizaniorum agri disseret.
(He who sowed seed and went to sleep and rose, and He discussed the parable of the burdock in the field with the disciples.)
72: 1
Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field.
2
But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed burdock among the wheat and went his way.
3
And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the burdock.
4
And the servants of the householder coming said to him. Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? Whence then hath it burdock? And he said to them: An enemy hath done this.
5
And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the burdock, you root up the wheat also together with it.
6
Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the burdock, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.
73: 1
Another parable he proposed unto them, saying: To what is the kingdom of God like, and whereunto shall I resemble it or to what parable shall we compare it?
2
It is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his garden, which is the least seed of all herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come, and dwell in the branches thereof.
74: 1
Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.
2
All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear, and without parables he did not speak to them.
3
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:
I will open my mouth in parables,
I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.
4
And his disciples came and said to him: Why speakest thou to them in parables? He answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given.
5
But apart, he explained all things to his disciples. Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
6
And the prophecy of Isaias is fulfilled in them, who saith:
By hearing you shall hear,
and shall not understand:
and seeing you shall see,
and shall not perceive.
For the heart of this people is grown gross,
and with their ears they have been dull of hearing,
and their eyes they have shut:
lest at any time they should see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart,
and be converted,
and I should heal them.
7
But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.
8
For, indeed, I say to you, many prophets and just men have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them: and to hear the things that you hear and have not heard them.
75: 1
Hear you therefore the parable of the sower: When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, there cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart: this is he that received the seed by the way side.
2
And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that heareth the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy, yet hath he not root in himself, but is only for a time: and when there ariseth tribulation and persecution because of the word, he is presently scandalised.
3
And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.
4
But he that received the seed into the good ground, is he that heareth the word, and understandeth, and beareth fruit, and yieldeth the one a hundredfold, and another sixty, and another thirty.
76: 1
So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the earth, and should sleep, and rise, night and day, and the seed should spring, and grow up whilst he knoweth not.
2
For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit, first the blade, then the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear. And when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
3
Then having sent away the multitudes, he came into the house, and his disciples came to him, saying: Expound to us the parable of the burdock of the field.
4
Responding, he said: He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man, and the field is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And the burdock are the children of the wicked one. And the enemy that sowed them, is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers are the angels. Even as burdock therefore is gathered up, and burnt with fire: so shall it be at the end of the world.
5
The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity. and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the just shine as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
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This Week's Gospel: Matt 13: 1 – 23.
(20th-Jul-2008) The 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A
Let them both grow till the harvest.
This reading, taken mainly from Matthew, is one of the few places where the Matthean sequence is disturbed. There may be some doubt as to whether the conventional order has been modified by the harmonizer, or whether he is a witness to an older order. Interweaving is light, with a small amount from Luke, and even less from Mark.
The result of the re-ordering is to insert the capita LXXI, to LXXIII, and part of LXXIIII into the sequence starting with LXX, and ending with LXXV. It might be thought that this was to improve the continuity of Luke, but actually, the Lukan sequence remains as if passed through a shredder.
Most of this week’s reading has, due to the re-ordering,already been given last week. What difference there is comprises omitting the first two capita from last week’s reading, and adding the subsequent caput after the last.
LXXII. De eo qui seminavit bonum semen in agro suo et de zizania.
(Of him who sowed good seed in his field, and of the burdock.)
LXXIII. De grano sinapis.
(Of the grain of mustard seed.)
LXXIIII. De fermento quod abscondit mulier et alia multa discipulis.
(Of the leaven which a woman hid, and many other things to the disciples.)
LXXV. Ubi discipulis disseret parabulam seminantis.
(Where, with the disciples, He discusses the parable of the sower.)
LXXVI. Qui seminat semen et vadit dormitum vel surgit et discipulis parabulam zizaniorum agri disseret.
(He who sowed seed and went to sleep and rose, and He discussed the parable of the burdock in the field with the disciples.)
72: 1
Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field.
2
But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed burdock among the wheat and went his way.
3
And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the burdock.
4
And the servants of the householder coming said to him. Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? Whence then hath it burdock? And he said to them: An enemy hath done this.
5
And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the burdock, you root up the wheat also together with it.
6
Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the burdock, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.
73: 1
Another parable he proposed unto them, saying: To what is the kingdom of God like, and whereunto shall I resemble it or to what parable shall we compare it?
2
It is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his garden, which is the least seed of all herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come, and dwell in the branches thereof.
74: 1
Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.
2
All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear, and without parables he did not speak to them.
3
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:
I will open my mouth in parables,
I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.
4
And his disciples came and said to him: Why speakest thou to them in parables? He answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given.
5
But apart, he explained all things to his disciples. Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
6
And the prophecy of Isaias is fulfilled in them, who saith:
By hearing you shall hear,
and shall not understand:
and seeing you shall see,
and shall not perceive.
For the heart of this people is grown gross,
and with their ears they have been dull of hearing,
and their eyes they have shut:
lest at any time they should see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart,
and be converted,
and I should heal them.
7
But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.
8
For, indeed, I say to you, many prophets and just men have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them: and to hear the things that you hear and have not heard them.
75: 1
Hear you therefore the parable of the sower: When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, there cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart: this is he that received the seed by the way side.
2
And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that heareth the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy, yet hath he not root in himself, but is only for a time: and when there ariseth tribulation and persecution because of the word, he is presently scandalised.
3
And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.
4
But he that received the seed into the good ground, is he that heareth the word, and understandeth, and beareth fruit, and yieldeth the one a hundredfold, and another sixty, and another thirty.
76: 1
So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the earth, and should sleep, and rise, night and day, and the seed should spring, and grow up whilst he knoweth not.
2
For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit, first the blade, then the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear. And when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
3
Then having sent away the multitudes, he came into the house, and his disciples came to him, saying: Expound to us the parable of the burdock of the field.
4
Responding, he said: He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man, and the field is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And the burdock are the children of the wicked one. And the enemy that sowed them, is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers are the angels. Even as burdock therefore is gathered up, and burnt with fire: so shall it be at the end of the world.
5
The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity. and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the just shine as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
This week's Gospel: The 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time
This week’s Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: The 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time
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This Week's Gospel: Matt 13: 1 – 23.
(13th-Jul-2008) The 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A
A sower went out to sow.
This reading, taken mainly from Matthew, is one of the few places where the Matthean sequence is disturbed. There may be some doubt as to whether the conventional order has been modified by the harmonizer, or whether he is a witness to an older order. Interweaving is light, with a small amount from Luke, and even less from Mark.
The result of the re-ordering is to insert the capita LXXI, to LXXIII, and part of LXXIIII into the sequence starting with LXX, and ending with LXXV. It might be thought that this was to improve the continuity of Luke, but actually, the Lukan sequence remains as if passed through a shredder.
LXX. Ubi Ihesus in montem orat et iuxta mare turbis et discipulis suis plurima in parabolis locutus est.
(Where Jesus, in the mountain prayed, and near the sea, He is speaking to the multitude and His disciples, many things in parables.)
LXXI. Ecce exiit qui seminat seminare.
(Behold the sower went forth to sow.)
LXXII. De eo qui seminavit bonum semen in agro suo et de zizania.
(Of him who sowed good seed in his field, and of the burdock.)
LXXIII. De grano sinapis.
(Of the grain of mustard seed.)
LXXIIII. De fermento quod abscondit mulier et alia multa discipulis.
(Of the leaven which a woman hid, and many other things to the disciples.)
LXXV. Ubi discipulis disseret parabulam seminantis.
(Where, with the disciples, He discusses the parable of the sower.)
70: 1
And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray: and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God.
2
And when day was come, he called unto him his disciples and going out of the house, sat by the sea side, and great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a boat and sat: and all the multitude stood on the shore, and he spoke to them many things in parables, saying:
71: 1
Behold the sower went forth to sow.
2
And whilst he soweth some fell by the way side, and were trodden down, and the birds came and ate them up.
3
And others some fell upon stony ground, where they had not much earth: and they sprung up immediately, because they had no deepness of earth. And when the sun was up they were scorched: and because they had not root, they withered away.
4
And others fell among thorns: and the thorns grew up and choked them.
5
And others fell upon good ground: and they brought forth fruit, some a hundred fold, some sixty fold, and some thirty fold.
6
Saying these things, he cried out: He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
72: 1
Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field.
2
But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed burdock among the wheat and went his way.
3
And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the burdock.
4
And the servants of the householder coming said to him. Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? Whence then hath it burdock? And he said to them: An enemy hath done this.
5
And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the burdock, you root up the wheat also together with it.
6
Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the burdock, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.
73: 1
Another parable he proposed unto them, saying: To what is the kingdom of God like, and whereunto shall I resemble it or to what parable shall we compare it?
2
It is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his garden, which is the least seed of all herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come, and dwell in the branches thereof.
74: 1
Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.
2
All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear, and without parables he did not speak to them.
3
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:
I will open my mouth in parables,
I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.
4
And his disciples came and said to him: Why speakest thou to them in parables? He answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given.
5
But apart, he explained all things to his disciples. Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
6
And the prophecy of Isaias is fulfilled in them, who saith:
By hearing you shall hear,
and shall not understand:
and seeing you shall see,
and shall not perceive.
For the heart of this people is grown gross,
and with their ears they have been dull of hearing,
and their eyes they have shut:
lest at any time they should see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart,
and be converted,
and I should heal them.
7
But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.
8
For, indeed, I say to you, many prophets and just men have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them: and to hear the things that you hear and have not heard them.
75: 1
Hear you therefore the parable of the sower: When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, there cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart: this is he that received the seed by the way side.
2
And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that heareth the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy, yet hath he not root in himself, but is only for a time: and when there ariseth tribulation and persecution because of the word, he is presently scandalised.
3
And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.
4
But he that received the seed into the good ground, is he that heareth the word, and understandeth, and beareth fruit, and yieldeth the one a hundredfold, and another sixty, and another thirty.
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This Week's Gospel: Matt 13: 1 – 23.
(13th-Jul-2008) The 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A
A sower went out to sow.
This reading, taken mainly from Matthew, is one of the few places where the Matthean sequence is disturbed. There may be some doubt as to whether the conventional order has been modified by the harmonizer, or whether he is a witness to an older order. Interweaving is light, with a small amount from Luke, and even less from Mark.
The result of the re-ordering is to insert the capita LXXI, to LXXIII, and part of LXXIIII into the sequence starting with LXX, and ending with LXXV. It might be thought that this was to improve the continuity of Luke, but actually, the Lukan sequence remains as if passed through a shredder.
LXX. Ubi Ihesus in montem orat et iuxta mare turbis et discipulis suis plurima in parabolis locutus est.
(Where Jesus, in the mountain prayed, and near the sea, He is speaking to the multitude and His disciples, many things in parables.)
LXXI. Ecce exiit qui seminat seminare.
(Behold the sower went forth to sow.)
LXXII. De eo qui seminavit bonum semen in agro suo et de zizania.
(Of him who sowed good seed in his field, and of the burdock.)
LXXIII. De grano sinapis.
(Of the grain of mustard seed.)
LXXIIII. De fermento quod abscondit mulier et alia multa discipulis.
(Of the leaven which a woman hid, and many other things to the disciples.)
LXXV. Ubi discipulis disseret parabulam seminantis.
(Where, with the disciples, He discusses the parable of the sower.)
70: 1
And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray: and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God.
2
And when day was come, he called unto him his disciples and going out of the house, sat by the sea side, and great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a boat and sat: and all the multitude stood on the shore, and he spoke to them many things in parables, saying:
71: 1
Behold the sower went forth to sow.
2
And whilst he soweth some fell by the way side, and were trodden down, and the birds came and ate them up.
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And others some fell upon stony ground, where they had not much earth: and they sprung up immediately, because they had no deepness of earth. And when the sun was up they were scorched: and because they had not root, they withered away.
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And others fell among thorns: and the thorns grew up and choked them.
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And others fell upon good ground: and they brought forth fruit, some a hundred fold, some sixty fold, and some thirty fold.
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Saying these things, he cried out: He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
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Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field.
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But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed burdock among the wheat and went his way.
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And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the burdock.
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And the servants of the householder coming said to him. Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? Whence then hath it burdock? And he said to them: An enemy hath done this.
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And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the burdock, you root up the wheat also together with it.
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Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the burdock, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.
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Another parable he proposed unto them, saying: To what is the kingdom of God like, and whereunto shall I resemble it or to what parable shall we compare it?
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It is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his garden, which is the least seed of all herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come, and dwell in the branches thereof.
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Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.
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All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear, and without parables he did not speak to them.
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That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:
I will open my mouth in parables,
I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.
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And his disciples came and said to him: Why speakest thou to them in parables? He answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given.
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But apart, he explained all things to his disciples. Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
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And the prophecy of Isaias is fulfilled in them, who saith:
By hearing you shall hear,
and shall not understand:
and seeing you shall see,
and shall not perceive.
For the heart of this people is grown gross,
and with their ears they have been dull of hearing,
and their eyes they have shut:
lest at any time they should see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart,
and be converted,
and I should heal them.
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But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.
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For, indeed, I say to you, many prophets and just men have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them: and to hear the things that you hear and have not heard them.
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Hear you therefore the parable of the sower: When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, there cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart: this is he that received the seed by the way side.
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And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that heareth the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy, yet hath he not root in himself, but is only for a time: and when there ariseth tribulation and persecution because of the word, he is presently scandalised.
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And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.
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But he that received the seed into the good ground, is he that heareth the word, and understandeth, and beareth fruit, and yieldeth the one a hundredfold, and another sixty, and another thirty.
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