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He who soweth sparingly, shall also reap sparingly: and he who soweth in blessings, shall also reap blessings. [ 35 ] According to the Council of Trent , one does not sin when doing "good works with a view to an eternal recompense."
Jerome: "Or, He was within while He was yet in the house, and spake sacraments to His disciples. He went therefore forth from the house, that He might sow seed among the multitudes." [10] Chrysostom: "When you hear the words, the sower went out to sow, do not suppose that is a tautology. For the sower goes out oftentimes for other ends; as, to ...
These labourers are alluded to in Psalm 126, "who sow in tears, shall reap in exultation", and are to be contrasted with the false labourers spoken of in Jeremiah 23:21, "I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied." [3] Johann Bengel sees in this verse an illustration of the importance of prayer:
This parable can be seen as related to the parable of the Sower, [1] although it does not follow that parable immediately. Seventh-day Adventist writer George Knight suggests that it serves as a "correction provided for any ancient or modern disciples who might be feeling discouraged with the amount of fruitless labor they had extended toward those" who failed to hear the message of which the ...
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? The Lord gives goodness to the people, and so the passage teaches to look to the lives of birds as an example for life and sustenance. The Novum Testamentum Graece text is:
"He who doesn't work, doesn't eat" – Soviet poster issued in Uzbekistan, 1920. He who does not work, neither shall he eat is an aphorism from the New Testament traditionally attributed to Paul the Apostle, later cited by John Smith in the early 1600s colony of Jamestown, Virginia, and broadly by the international socialist movement, from the United States [1] to the communist revolutionary ...
A vendor in Madrid weighs a bunch of grapes at the market on New Year's Eve. / Credit: Europa Press News via Getty Images
And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. [16] "Take his cross": is in the sense of "willingly to undergo the severe trials that fall to his lot" ( 2 Corinthians 1:5 ; Philippians 3:10 ); a figurative expression taken from the practice that "condemned criminals were compelled to take up their own cross and ...