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John Gill's Exposition on Matthew 13:8
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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But others fell into good ground, etc.] Not beaten and trodden by the feet of men, nor stony, nor thorny, but well broke up, manured, and tilled; which designs good, honest hearted hearers who become so by the Spirit and grace of God; who with a spiritual understanding, experience, savour, and relish, what they hear; (see <401323>Matthew 13:23) and brought forth fruit, some an hundred fold, some sixty fold, some thirty fold: some seeds produced an hundred, others sixty, and others thirty. The first of these especially was a large increase, but what was sometimes had, and which Isaac received in Gerar, in the land of the Philistines, (<012612>Genesis 26:12) and is what Pliny says f780 of Byzacium, a country of the Lybiphoenicians, that it yielded an hundred fold to its husbandmen; and of such fruitfulness was the land of Israel, of which the Jewish doctors say some things incredible: they tell us a story f781 of “one that sowed a measure of vetches, or pease, ˆyas twam çlç hç[w, “and it produced three hundred measures”; they say unto him, the Lord hath begun to bless thee, etc.” Here, in the parable, these various increases intend the different degrees of fruitfulness in gracious souls; for though the fruits of grace, in believers, are of the same quality, yet not of the same quantity. Some believers are grown to a greater maturity than others; some are but little children, some are young men, some are fathers.
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