Matthew 13:25
Douay-Rheims
But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way.
Francis Patrick Kenrick
This circumstance is introduced to account for the opportunity af- forded to the enemy, whilst the men in the employment of the owner were asleep. It may be applied to mark the negligence of those who should watch for the interests of religion. Campbell contends that darnel expresses more accurately the origi- nal term. It was a weed resembling wheat, from which it could only be distinguished when the wheat was putting forth the ear. " A Catho- lic " adopts the original term zizan.
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1863 · Matthew 13:25
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