Matthew 13:7

And some fell among thorns,.... On a spot of ground which was full of the roots of thorns, and briars, which was not cleared of them as it should be. We often read (e) of , "a field cleared of…

In parables - The word “parable” is derived from a Greek word signifying “to compare together,” and denotes a similitude taken from a natural object to illustrate a spiritual or moral subject. It is a…

We have here Christ preaching, and may observe,

1. When Christ preached this sermon; it was the same day that he preached the sermon in the foregoing chapter: so unwearied was he in doing good, and…

thorns sprung up The scholar will remember that Vergil mentions among the "plagues" of the wheat,

"Ut mala culmos

Esset robigo segnisque horreret in

arvis Carduus."

Georg.i:150 153.