Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
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Gill's Exposition
Some fell upon stony places,.... Such a place as the Jews call a barren, stony place, a place from whence, they say, they take stones, and , and which , "is not fit for sowing" (d); and such were…
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Cambridge Bible
stony places Places where the underlying rock was barely covered with earth. The hot sun striking on the thin soil and warming the rock beneath would cause the corn to spring up rapidly and then as…
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