Matthew 13:7 - The Pulpit Commentary - Bible Study & Commentary

Matthew 13:7 - Exposition

And some fell among thorns; upon the thorns (Revised Version); which were sure to be close by (cf. Jeremiah 4:3 ). And the thorns sprang up ( grew up, Revised Version, ἀνέβησαν ), and choked them. Whether brambles or merely spinous weeds are here referred to is not certain. Even the former might be comparatively low in sowing time, and only as they "grew up" cause serious injury to the wheat.

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

The Pulpit Commentary is a homiletic commentary on the Bible created during the nineteenth century under the direction of Rev. Joseph S. Exell and Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones. It consists of 23 volumes with 22,000 pages and 95,000 entries, and was written over a 30-year period with 100 contributors.... Show more

Matthew 13:7 - Exposition

Matthew 13:7 - Exposition

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