8/20/2023 0 Comments Mustard seed kjv![]() the imagery of Ezekiel 31:3 Daniel 4:10), a great organised society and the “birds of the air” (no longer, as before, the emblems of evil)- i.e., the systems of thought, institutions, and the like, of other races-were to find refuge under its protection. It was sown in God’s field of the world, but it was to grow till it became greater than any sect or school, a tree among the trees of the forest, a kingdom among other kingdoms (comp. As it then was, even as it was on the day of Pentecost, it was smaller than any sect or party in Palestine or Greece or Italy. Here again the sower is the Son of Man but the seed in this case is not so much the “word,” as the Christian society, the Church, which forms, so to speak, the firstfruits of the word. The interpretation of the parable lies almost on the surface. Probably, however, the name was used widely for any plant that had the pungent flavour of mustard, and botanists have suggested the Salvadora persica as answering to the description. What we call mustard ( Sinapis nigra) does not grow in the East, any more than with us, into anything that can be called a tree. It is scarcely necessary to discuss at any length the botany of the parable. They ask for the meaning of the Tares, but we read of no question about these. And, so far as we can judge, they seem to have been equal to the task. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(31) The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed.-The two parables that follow are left without an explanation, as though to train the disciples in the art of interpreting for themselves.
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