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Reaping
Is the cutting of the corn in harvest - Job 24:6; Le 23:10
The sickle used for - De 16:9; Mr 4:29
Both men and women engaged in - Ru 2:8,9
THE JEWS NOT TO REAP
- The corners of their fields
- Le 19:9; 23:22- During the Sabbatical year
- Le 25:5- During the year of jubilee
- Le 25:11- The fields of others
- De 23:25Mode of gathering the corn for, alluded to - Ps 129:7; Isa 17:5
Corn after, was bound up into sheaves - Ge 37:7; Ps 129:7
PERSONS ENGAGED IN
- Under the guidance of a steward
- Ru 2:5,6- Visited by the master
- Ru 2:4; 2Ki 4:18- Fed by the master who himself presided at their meals
- Ru 2:14- Received wages
- Joh 4:36; Jas 5:4A time of great rejoicing - Ps 126:5,6
The Jews often hindered from, on account of their sins - Mic 6:15
Often unprofitable on account of sin - Jer 12:13
ILLUSTRATIVE OF
- Receiving the reward of wickedness
- Job 4:8; Pr 22:8; Ho 8:7; Ga 6:8- Receiving the reward of righteousness
- Ho 10:12; Ga 6:8,9- Ministers receiving temporal provision for spiritual
labours - 1Co 9:11- Gathering in souls to God
- Joh 4:38- The judgments of God on the antichristian world
- Re 14:14-16- The final judgment
- Mt 13:30,39-43 Next Topic (Rebellion Against God)