Matthew:13:31-35

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rwp @Matthew:13:31 @{Is like } (\homoia estin \). Adjective for comparison with associative instrumental as in strkjv @13:13 ,44 ,45 ,47 ,52 |. {Grain of mustard seed } (\kokk “i sinape “s \). Single grain in contrast with the collective \sperma \ (17:20 |). {Took and sowed } (\lab “n espeiren \). Vernacular phrasing like Hebrew and all conversational style . In _Koin ‚ _ . rwp @Matthew:13:32 @{A tree } (\dendron \). "Not in nature , but in size " (Bruce ). "An excusable exaggeration in popular discourse ." rwp @Matthew:13:33 @{Is like unto leaven } (\homoia estin zum ˆi \). In its pervasive power . Curiously enough some people deny that Jesus here likens the expanding power of the Kingdom of heaven to leaven , because , they say , leaven is the symbol of corruption . But the language of Jesus is not to be explained away by such exegetical jugglery . The devil is called like a lion by Peter (1Peter:5:8 |) and Jesus in Revelation is called the Lion of the Tribe of Judah (Revelation:5:5 |). The leaven permeates all the "wheaten meal " (\aleurou \) till the whole is leavened . There is nothing in the "three measures ," merely a common amount to bake . Dr . T .R . Glover in his _Jesus of History_ suggests that Jesus used to notice his mother using that amount of wheat flour in baking bread . To find the Trinity here is , of course , quite beside the mark . The word for leaven , \zum ˆ\, is from \ze “\, to boil , to seethe , and so pervasive fermentation . rwp @Matthew:13:35 @{I will utter } (\ereuxomai \). To cast forth like a river , to gurgle , to disgorge , the passion of a prophet . From strkjv @Psalms:19:2 ; strkjv @78:2 |. The Psalmist claims to be able to utter "things hidden from the foundation of the world " and Matthew applies this language to the words of Jesus . Certain it is that the life and teaching of Jesus throw a flood of light on the purposes of God long kept hidden (\kekrummena \).

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