20, 21. εὐθὺς … εὐθύς. The unstable and volatile nature is as quick to be attracted by the gospel at first, as it is to abandon it afterwards when the trial comes.

ὁ δὲ σπαρείς. ‘He that was sown.’ The man is compared to the seed. Comp. the more definite expression in Luke 8:14, τὸ δὲ εἰς τὰς�. For a defence of the A.V. ‘He that receiveth the seed’ (σπαρεὶς being taken in the sense of τὴν σπειρομένην Αἴγυπτον), see McClellan, New Testament, &c., ad loc.

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