FROM TORREY’S TOPICAL TEXTBOOK (1897)

Torrey’s Topical Textbook (1897) — public domain, printed whole.

- The breaking up or tilling of the earth

Jer 4:3; Ho 10:12

- Noah the supposed inventor of

Ge 5:29

- PERFORMED

. By a plough

Lu 9:62

. With oxen

1Sa 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; Lu 17:7

. Sometimes by the owner of the land himself

1Ki 19:19

- With an ox and an ass yoked together forbidden to the Jews

De 22:10

- Difficulty of, on rocky ground

Am 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

Ho 10:11

. Of a course of sin

Job 4:8; Ho 10:13

. Of the labour ministers

1Co 9:10

. (Attention and constancy required in,) of continued

devotedness

Lu 9:62