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

Seed

• Every herb, tree and grass yields its own Gen. 1:11, 12, 29
• Each kind of, has its own body 1 Cor. 15:38
• Sowing of
  • Time for, called seed time Gen. 8:22
  • Necessary to its productiveness Jn. 12:24; 1 Cor. 15:36
  • Required constant diligence Eccl. 11:4, 6
  • Often attended with great waste Mt. 13:4, 5, 7
  • Often attended with danger Ps. 126:5, 6
• Yearly return of time of sowing, secured by covenant Gen. 8:21, 22
• The ground carefully plowed, and prepared for Isa. 28:24, 25
• Often sown beside rivers Eccl. 11:1; Isa. 32:20
• Often trodden into the ground, by the feet of oxen Isa. 32:20
• Required to be watered by the rain Isa. 55:10
• In Egypt required to be artificially watered Dt. 11:10
• Yielded an abundant increase in Canaan Gen. 26:12; Mt. 13:23
• Mosaic laws respecting
  • Different kinds of, not to be sown in the same field Lev. 19:19; Dt. 22:9
  • If dry, exempted from uncleanness though touched by an unclean thing Lev. 11:37
  • If wet, rendered unclean by contact with an unclean thing Lev. 11:38
  • The tithe of, to be given to God Lev. 27:30
  • Not to be sown during the sabbatical year Lev. 25:4, 20
  • Not to be sown in year of jubilee Lev. 25:11
• Difference between, and the plant which grows from it, noticed 1 Cor. 15:37, 38
• The Jews punished by
  • Its rotting in the ground Joel 1:17; Mal. 2:3
  • Its yielding but little increase Isa. 5:10; Hag. 1:6
  • Its increase being consumed by locusts, &c Dt. 28:38; Joel 1:4
  • Its increase being consumed by enemies Lev. 26:16; Dt. 28:33, 51
  • Its being choked by thorns Jer. 12:13; Mt. 13:7
• Illustrative of
  • The word of God Lk. 8:11; 1 Pet. 1:23
  • Spiritual life 1 Jn. 3:9
• Sowing, illustrative of
  • Preaching the gospel Mt. 13:3, 32; 1 Cor. 9:11
  • Scattering or dispersing a people Zech. 10:9
  • Christian liberality Eccl. 11:6; 2 Cor. 9:6
  • Men's works producing a corresponding recompence Job 4:8; Hos. 10:12; Gal. 6:7, 8
  • The death of Christ and its effects Jn. 12:24
  • The burial of the body 1 Cor. 15:36-38