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He said, “What is God’s Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it?
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NEW TESTAMENT
All chapters Luke 13:18–21
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It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his own garden. It grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky live in its branches.”
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Verse 19. Our Lord was this mustard-seed, when he was buried in the earth; and He became a tree, when he ascended into heaven; but a tree that overshadowed the whole creation, in the branches of which the birds of heaven rested; that is, the powers of heaven, and all such as by good works have raised themselves from the earth. The apostles are the branches, to repose in whose bosoms we take our flight, borne on the wings of Christian virtue. Let us sow this seed (Christ) in the garden of our hearts, that the grace of good works may flourish, and you may send forth the various perfumes of every virtue. Saint Ambrose
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Again he said, “To what shall I compare God’s Kingdom?
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It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”
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Verse 21. The flour represents us Christians, who receive the Lord Jesus into the inner parts of our soul, till we are all inflamed with the fire of his heavenly wisdom. Saint Ambrose.
literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 liters or a bit more than a bushel.
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