...parable of the "tares of the field."* The Lord, in His explanation of that parable, says "the tares are the children of the wicked one; and the enemy that sowed them is the devil;" by this comparison plainly intimating that useless and noxious things in the vegetable kingdom...

...man. And the field is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom, and the cockle are the children of the wicked one. And the enemy that sowed them, is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers are the Angels. The Son of man shall...

...outrage on common sense ; novelty has been attained by boldness which yet conforms to pictorial tisane ; the theme, like its accessory landscape, stretches...sowed them -is the devil." This theme, which has been haqdled by Overbeck and others, is dark in terror-moving mystery. The origin of evil, the personality...

...to stretch forward into the future — has found further and forcible illustration in the only olhcr work of Mr. Millais we shall stop to scrutinise —...sowed tares. Now the tares are the children of the wicked one, mid the enemy that sowed them is the devil." This theme, which has been handled by Ovcrbeck...

...of God are manifested, and the children of the devil." In our Lord's parable, He says, " The tares are the children of the wicked one, and the enemy that sowed them is the Devil." He uses far stronger and plainer language, when He says to the Jews, after they had boasted...

...man ; and the field is the world ; and the good seed are the children of the kingdom ; and the cockle are the children of the wicked one ; and the enemy that sowed them is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world ; and the reapers are the angels. Even as the cockle...

...Man ; and the field is the world, and the good seed are the children of the kingdom, and the cockle are the children of the wicked one, and the enemy that sowed them is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels. The Son of Man shall...

...whence the field had tares, for they well knew that he had not sown them. The tares, our Lord tells us, are " the children of the wicked one," and the enemy that sowed them is the devil. This, therefore, is the utmost that we can know of the origin of evil ; we can trace it back to Satan, and...

...tares, and told the master, he said, "An enemy hath done this." Our Lord's explanation is, " The tares are the children of the wicked one ; and the enemy that sowed them is the Devil." Now, in the fact that wicked men are the work of the Devil, we have an additional proof that...

...Man ; and the field is the world, and the good seed are the children of the kingdom, and the cockle are the children of the wicked- one, and the enemy that sowed them is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels. The Son of Man shall...