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. The Red Words - Page 18by Katherine Fries - 2005 - 140 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Christopher Benson - Apologetics - 1826 - 524 pages
...Heaven," said he,*, " is like unto a grain of mustard-seed which a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds ; but when...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." , . , Now the field is the world — the grain of mustard-seed is the Gospel, and the man that sowed... | |
| Science - 1827 - 456 pages
...description, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Societjt qf * " A mustard-seed .... which indeed is the least of all seeds ; but when...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." London for 1749 ; for, in thejirst edition of the Species Plantarum, published at Stockholm in 1753,... | |
| John Pridham - 1826 - 438 pages
...The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took and sowed in his field; which indeed is the least of all seeds ; but when...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. Another parable spake he unto them : The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took,... | |
| William Laurence Brown - Christianity and other religions - 1826 - 376 pages
...a man took, and sowed in his field ; which indeed is the least of all seeds, but, when it is grown, is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree,...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof ;"b was literally verified in the spread of his church. From the smallest root it diffused its branches... | |
| 1827 - 524 pages
...saying; The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustardseed, which a man took and sowed in his field. "Which indeed is the least of all seeds; but when...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took,... | |
| Geology - 1827 - 452 pages
...description, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of * " A mustard-seed .... which indeed is the least of all seeds ; but when...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." London for 1749 ; for, in the first edition of the Species Plan-, tarum, published at Stockholm in... | |
| John Platts - 1827 - 572 pages
...8. The extraordinary success of the Gospel in the world over all the opposition it should meet with. indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. Another parable spake he unto them ; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took,... | |
| John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...put he forth unto them, saying, f The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed,10 which a man took, and sowed in his field : 32 Which indeed...grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a 8tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. 33 fh Another parable spake... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 pages
...a man took and sowed in his field ; which indeed is the least of all seeds ; but when it is grown, is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree,...the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches of it." This text is another clear proof of the same thing. And his prediction is delivered with some... | |
| John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 606 pages
...jwrable : ' The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard-seed, which a man sowed in his field; which, indeed, is the least of all seeds; but when...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... | |
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