| sir John Bayley (1st bart), Henry Clissold - 1828 - 196 pages
...sowed in his field : which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. Matt. xiii. 31, 32. Mark iv. SO— 32. Luke xiii. 18, 19. No. 235. The kingdom of heaven is like unto... | |
| Hervey Wilbur - 1828 - 588 pages
...in Ilia field: 32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is ¡crown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. i 33^ Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of he* yen is like unto leaven, •which a woman... | |
| John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 606 pages
...sowed in his field; which, indeed, is the least of all seeds; but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.' [Matt. xiii. 31.] In this allusion, the friend of Christianity might perhaps discern the suddenness... | |
| James Nourse - 1829 - 292 pages
...in his field : which indeed 32 is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. of the leaven. ANOTHER parable spake he unto them : The kingdom 33 of heaven is like unto leaven, which... | |
| 1829 - 398 pages
...earth ; which indeed,' said he, ' is the least of all seeds, but, when it is grown, is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.' This expression will not seem strange, says Sjr Thomas Browne, if we recollect that the mustard-seed,... | |
| 1829 - 478 pages
...earth ; which indeed,' said he, ' is the least of all seeds, but, when it is grown, is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.' This expression will not seem strange, says Sir ThoBrowne, if we recollect that the mustard-seed, though... | |
| 1831 - 524 pages
...hid in his field : which indeed is the least of all seeds ; but when it is grown it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof" (vers. 31, 32). In the parable immediately preceding, all men are seeds : therefore there is no reason... | |
| John Fleetwood - 1831 - 676 pages
...sowed in his field. Which indeed is the least of all seeds ; but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree : so that the birds...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." Matt. xiii. 31, 32. Our blessed Saviour concluded his discourse to the multitude, with the parable... | |
| William Burkitt - 1832 - 780 pages
...field: 32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herhs, am not to go back to Herod, they return home another...wise men play the parts of honest men, in that the 66 ST. MATTHEW. them : The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three... | |
| William Samuel Powell - 1832 - 588 pages
...sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. '-f In this allusion, the friend of Christianity might perhaps discern the suddenness of its first... | |
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