“What then comes of this seed? Three parts perish, and one is saved. "And when He sowed, some seeds fell," He saith, "by the way side; and the fowls came and devoured them up." He said not, that He cast them, but that "they fell." A fourth part is saved; and not this all alike, but even here great is the difference. No…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on the Gospel of Matthew 44
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8But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
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6And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
7And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
— Matthew 13:8 —
9Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
10And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?