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three nights, thus shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days 41 and three nights. Men of Nineveh shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonas, and 42 behold more than Jonas is here. queen of [the] south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold more than Solomon is here.

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But when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and does not find [it.] 44 Then he says: I will return to my house whence I came out; and having come, he finds it unoccupied, swept, and adorned. 45 Then he goes and takes with himself seven other spirits worse than himself, and entering in, they dwell there; and the last condition of that man becomes worse than the first. Thus shall it be to this wicked generation also.

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But while he was yet speaking to the

crowds, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without seeking to speak 47 to him. Then one said unto him: Lo, thy mother and thy brethren are standing 48 without seeking to speak to thee. But he answering, said to him that spoke to him, Who is my mother, and who are my brethren? And, stretching out his hand to his disciples, he said: Behold my 50 mother and my brethren; for whosoever shall do the will of my Father who [is] in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

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XIII. And that [same] day Jesus went

out from the house and sat down by the 2 sea. And great crowds were gathered together to him, so that going on board ship himself he sat down, and the whole 3 crowd stood on the shore. And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying, ▲ Behold, the sower went out to sow ; and as he sowed some grains fell along the way, and the birds came and devoured 5 them; and others fell upon the rocky places where they had not much earth, and immediately they sprang up out of

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[the ground] because of not having [any] depth of earth, but when the sun rose they were burnt up, and because of not having [any] root were dried up; ' and others fell upon the thorns, and the 8 thorns grew up and choked them; and others fell upon the good ground and produced fruit, one a hundred [fold], one sixty, and one thirty. 10 to hear let him hear.

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And the disciples came up and said to him: Why speakest " thou to them in parables? And he answering said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it 12 is not given; for whoever has, there shall be given to him, and he shall be caused to be in abundance; but he who has

As to the good thing given. It is abstract; the object is not to say what is given, but the manner of God's dealing. Пepioσevw has a causative force, see Eph. i., and here has the same subject as shall be given. What is given is caused to be in abundance. We may say also, 'he shall be in abundance,' a word used of the thing and of the person possessing it. It or he is in abundance.

not, what he has also shall be taken away 13 from him. For this cause I speak to

them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear 14 nor understand; and * by them is filled up the prophecy of Esaiah, which says, hearing you shall hear and shall not understand, and beholding you shall behold 15 and not see; for the heart of this people has grown fat, and they hear heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes as asleep, lest they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and should be converted, and I should heal 16 them. But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they 17 hear; for verily I say unto you that

* Επι is omitted by the editors. Αναπληρω is more than πληροω. It is to supply what is wanting, and so fill up. Since Esaias's time there had been much of this, but the rejection of Christ completed and filled it up. By them,' may be translated 'in them.' The sense is little different. By' casts more on their act and responsibility: ET seems to have been introduced to avoid this sense of it.

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many prophets and righteous [men] have desired to see the things which ye behold and did not see [them], and to hear the things which ye hear and did is not hear them. Ye, therefore, hear ye 19 the parable of the sower. From every one who hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand [it], the wicked one comes and catches away what was sown in his heart; this is he that is sown by the wayside. But he that is sown on the rocky place-this is he who hears the word and immediately receives 21 it with joy, but has no root in himself, but is for a time only; and when tribulation or persecution happens on account of the word he is immediately offended. 22 And he that is sown among thorns—this is he who hears the word, and the anxious cares of this life* and the deceit of riches choke the word and he becomes un23 fruitful. But he that is sown upon the

Αιώνος. The earliest homeric use of alwv is 'life in man,' afterwards the course of any events, an age, and eternity.' Here 'life' expresses it clearly enough.

† Or 'it.'