. Under the open sky; being a year with nature. Natural history. JUNE 127 senibled to a man that sowed good seede in his field. But when men were a sleepe his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheate and went his ; The King James version made the word tares instead of cockle, to our confusion. The plant named in the Greek original is not our cockle; but cockle is none the less a better translation for our purposes than tares. We have no tares; but all that in this case is true of the tares is true of the cockle as well; and if the Christ were teaching in our land to-day and wi
. Under the open sky; being a year with nature. Natural history. JUNE 127 senibled to a man that sowed good seede in his field. But when men were a sleepe his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheate and went his ; The King James version made the word tares instead of cockle, to our confusion. The plant named in the Greek original is not our cockle; but cockle is none the less a better translation for our purposes than tares. We have no tares; but all that in this case is true of the tares is true of the cockle as well; and if the Christ were teaching in our land to-day and wished to convey the same lesson, he would certainly say cockle and not tares. When cockle springs up, its long tender leaves make it look much like the grain amongst which it grows, and to weed it out at that time would be quite a difficult task. But let it go to maturity, and its warm- colored flowers, lifting themselves out of their swollen, bladdery cups, are easy to see, as we look at this season over the ripen- ing grain. I suspect man himself has done much to v--i. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Schmucker, Samuel Christian, b. 1860. Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott Company
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