29
But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 29. When the fruit is brought forth: lit. when the fruit [1] hath produced. By the fruit is here meant the seed; that is when the seed by degrees hath produced the blade, then the ear, and lastly the corn, which is become ripe. Witham.—This is a secondary sense of the text, when the fruit hath come to maturity, and by no means a forced interpretation.
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