Isatis herba

upon rock or upon sand, of the harvest of laborers, of the fruitless fig tree in which the sentence of extirpation is retracted if it could be brought back to fertility by digging around it and fertilizing it, of the steward or dispenser wasting his master's goods, of the green and dry wood, of the eternal water extinguishing thirst, of the signs of the harvest, of the good shepherd, of the hirelings, of the sheep, the sheepfold, the wolf, and the door of the sheepfold, of the grain of wheat cast into the earth and dying therein, and subsequently bearing manifold fruits, of the farmer, the vineyard, and the vine, of the pains of a woman in labor, and if there are any others. For Christ Himself, the highest wisdom, seems to have delighted most in this kind of discourse. And to explain myself briefly, that Apostle of the Gentiles, Paul, with what convenient and most fitting arguments brought from natural things does he place the main dogmas of our faith before the eyes of his listeners? For, to bring forward one out of infinite examples, with what energy of words