Luke 8:4
Douay-Rheims
And when a very great multitude was gathered together, and hastened out of the cities unto him, he spoke by a similitude.
Bede the Venerable
The rock, he says, is the hard and unsubdued heart. Now the moisture at the root of the seed is the same as what is called in another parable, the oil to trim the lamps of the virgins, that is, love and stedfastness in virtue. (Matt. 25.)
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A.D. 735 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 8:4-15
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.