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These are they by the road, where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.
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Satan's Immediate Attack
Commentators stress the speed of the enemy's attack. The verse says Satan comes "straightway" or "immediately." Charles Spurgeon notes, "we may delay, but the devil never does." This highlights that a spiritual battle for the truth begins the very moment the Word of God is heard, requiring immediate attention from the hearer.
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Where the word is sown (οπου σπειρετα ο λογος). Explanatory detail only in Mark.
Satan (Σατανας) where Mt …
19th Century
Anglican
In their hearts.—The better manuscripts give simply, “in them.”
Baptist
There is always a bird where there is a seed lying on the road, and there is always a devil where there is a sermon heard, but not received into th…
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The seeds sown on the hard-beaten path indicate those who have a shallow reception of the word. Satan snatches it from them before it has had an op…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown , &c.] Such hearers are represented by the way side, in w…
Presbyterian
This parable contained instruction so important that all capable of hearing were obligated to pay attention to it. There are many things it is impo…
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