Sowing and seed-field imagery uses seed, soil, planting, and growth to describe the reception of God’s word, the hidden beginning of kingdom life, and the moral harvest that follows what is sown.
Sowing and seed-field imagery uses seed, soil, planting, and growth to describe the reception of God’s word, the hidden beginning of kingdom life, and the moral harvest that follows what is sown.
An agrarian motif in which sowing, seed, field, and soil represent proclamation, reception, spiritual causality, and delayed but certain fruitfulness or consequence.
These examples show how Sowing and Seed-Field Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
a sower went forth to sow
The parable uses seed and soils to picture differing receptions of the word.
good seed and tares in the field
Seed-field imagery describes the mixed condition of the kingdom before final separation.
seed springs and grows, he knows not how
The hidden growth of the seed pictures the mysterious advance of God’s kingdom.
the seed is the word of God
Jesus explicitly interprets the seed as the word received or rejected by hearers.
a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies
The seed image presents death as the path to multiplied fruit.
I planted, Apollos watered
Paul uses planting imagery for ministerial labour under God’s growth-giving power.
what thou sowest is not quickened except it die
Sowing imagery helps explain resurrection transformation through continuity and change.
he which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly
Sowing establishes a moral pattern for generosity and its fruit.
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap
Moral sowing imagery connects present conduct with future consequence.
the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace
Righteousness is pictured as seed sown in the conditions of peace.
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