Holy Scripture
Isaiah 28:25
A church father on this verse
“(Vers. 23 seqq.) Pay attention and listen to my voice: listen and hear my speech. Does the plowman plow all day to sow, break up the soil, and harrow it? When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow dill, scatter cumin, plant wheat in rows, barley, millet, and rye in their proper place? For his God instructs him a…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
25Does he not, when he has leveled the surface thereof, then sow the small black poppy, or cumin, and afterward sow wheat, and barley, and millet, and bread corn in thy borders?
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23Hearken, and hear my voice; attend, and hear my words.
24Will the plowman plow all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?
— Isaiah 28:25 —
26So thou shalt be chastened by the judgment of thy God, and shalt rejoice.
27For the black poppy is not cleansed with harsh treatment, nor will a wagon wheel pass over the cumin; but the black poppy is threshed with a rod, and the cumin shall be eaten with bread;