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1 Timothy 4:4-5: "For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer." Psalm 100:4 ...
Saint Remigius: " But when the Son of God looked down from heaven upon the earth, to hear the groans of the captives, straight a great harvest began to ripen; for the multitude of the human race would never have come near to the faith, had not the Author of human salvation looked down from heaven; and it follows, Then said he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers ...
Matthew 13:16 "But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear." 1 Chronicles 16:34 "Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever."
[clarification needed] Jesus calls His Father "the Lord of the vineyard" in Matthew 21:40, [1] and "the husbandman" in John 15:1. [2] However, the term could also refer to Jesus, who sends out his the labourers, i.e. the apostles: see the quotation from John Chrysostom below.
The hymn later gained popularity in the United States where it is used as part of Thanksgiving celebrations. [3] The first verse is written as a celebration of the harvest, calling for people to give thanks to God for it. [5] The last two verses are based on the Parable of the Tares, and discuss the last harvest at the Second Coming of Jesus. [1]
For Matthew is interpreted ‘given,’ Levi ‘taken,’ the penitent is taken out of the mass of the perishing, and by God's grace given to the Church. And Jesus saith unto him, Follow me, either by preaching, or by the admonition of Scripture, or by internal illumination." [3]
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