Plow and furrow imagery uses the breaking of ground to picture preparation, repentance, painful affliction, disciplined labor, and hope for later fruit.
Plow and furrow imagery uses the breaking of ground to picture preparation, repentance, painful affliction, disciplined labor, and hope for later fruit.
An agricultural-preparation motif in which plowing, furrows, fallow ground, or the hand on the plow signifies moral readiness, covenant repentance, labor under hope, violent oppression, or the irreversible demand of discipleship.
These examples show how Plow, Furrow, and Broken-Ground Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
plowing with twelve yoke of oxen
Elisha is called from plow labor, showing ordinary work interrupted by prophetic vocation.
they that plow iniquity
Plowing becomes a moral image for cultivating wickedness that will be reaped later.
The plowers plowed upon my back
Deep furrows picture the cruel affliction of Gods people.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold
Failure to plow pictures negligence that leads to later lack.
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?
Plowing is used to explain Gods measured and purposeful dealings.
Break up your fallow ground
Broken ground becomes an image for repentance and readiness to receive truth.
break up your fallow ground
Repentance is pictured as preparing hard soil for righteousness.
Ye have plowed wickedness
Plowing wickedness names deliberate moral cultivation of sin.
put his hand to the plough
The plowman image warns against divided discipleship and backward-looking hesitation.
he that ploweth should plow in hope
Plowing becomes an image of labor undertaken with expectation of fruit.
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