 | John Townsend - 1828 - 318 pagina’s
...last a tall, fruitful, and wide-spreading tree ; (Matt. xiii. 31 j) and to bread-corn, which produces, first, the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear, (Mark iv. 28.) It is also exhibited to us by the apostle, under the progress of animal life ;... | |
 | William Jay - 1829 - 592 pagina’s
...shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. It is like the springing of the earth ; first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear. Fourthly. The progress of their improvement under disadvantages. They had much more obeyed "in... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pagina’s
...how pleasing is it to the husbandman after manuring, and plowing, and sowing, to go forth and see, first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear ; and when he has borne the burden and heat of the day in harvest to behold the precious grain... | |
 | 1832 - 702 pagina’s
...end, and year after year we must watch and wait for the imperceptible putting forth and progress of ' first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear.' And so it is with the wants and the attainments of the mind, the education and civilization of... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1833 - 472 pagina’s
...the showers, and of the sunshine; but thou wast pleased to bless the springing thereof; and we saw first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear. We hailed the valleys standing thick with corn, and heard the little hills rejoicing on every... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1833 - 346 pagina’s
...the showers, and of the sunshine; but thou wast pleased to bless the springing thereof; and we saw first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear. We hailed the valleys standing thick with corn, and heard the little hills rejoicing on every... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 pagina’s
...how pleasing is it to the husbandman after manuring, and plowing, and sowing, to go forth and see, first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear ; and when he has borne the burden and heat of the day in harvest to behold the precious grain... | |
 | William Jay - 1834 - 330 pagina’s
...But, in a general way, it is small in its beginning. The soul resembles the field, where we see, " first the blade, then the ear, and, after that, the full corn in the ear." God could instantly produce the fruits of the earth in their maturity, but we know from the event... | |
 | Edward Thompson - 1837 - 778 pagina’s
...gradually developing its sweetness in the soft sunshine of a happy home. Note how they muse upon— .first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear. Oh, where lives the human being who deserves that holy name of parent, who has not felt this soul-stirring... | |
 | Johannes Zollikofer - 1837 - 722 pagina’s
...tfae showers, and of the sunshine ; but Thou wast pleased to bless the springing thereof; and we saw first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear. We hailed the valleys standing thick with corn, and heard the little hills rejoicing on every... | |
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Him in whom it lives, showing first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear. 
