New Torrey's Topical Textbook: Rev. R. A. Torrey

Plowing

• The breaking up or tilling of the earth Jer. 4:3; Hos. 10:12
• Noah the supposed inventor of Gen. 5:29
• Performed
  • By a plow Lk. 9:62
  • With oxen 1 Sam. 14:14; Job 1:14
  • During the cold winter season Pr. 20:4
  • In long and straight furrows Ps. 129:3
  • Generally by servants Isa. 61:5; Lk. 17:7
  • Sometimes by the owner of the land himself 1 Ki. 19:19
• With an ox and an ass yoked together forbidden to the Jews Dt. 22:10
• Difficulty of, on rocky ground Amos 6:12
• Followed by harrowing and sowing Isa. 28:24, 25
• Illustrative
  • Of repentance and reformation Jer. 4:3
  • Of peace and prosperity Isa. 2:4; Mic. 4:3
  • Of a severe course of affliction Hos. 10:11
  • Of a course of sin Job 4:8; Hos. 10:13
  • Of the labor of ministers 1 Cor. 9:10
  • (Attention and constancy required in,) of continued devotedness Lk. 9:62