Verse 20
20. Blessed are ye that sow In the coming happy times, when great activity shall be among God’s people in planting his principles everywhere.
Beside Better, upon all waters. The allusion may be to the practice in overflowing river countries, like Egypt and Mesopotamia, of sowing rice in the still waters at each overflow, and then sending cattle the ox and the ass freely to tread in the grain. The idea is still using the above practice as a figure that the passage relates wholly to moral cultivation; that the planting of the truth is to be universal; that these truths are free as the air for all men, just as “the ox and the ass” are free to range in patches of planted rice lands, or in extended pasture lands. No doubt the verse implies the happy moral condition of coming times, and the free activity of enterprises to improve mankind generally.
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