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and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
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The Three Spiritual Chokers
Commentators identify three primary threats that choke God's word: 1) 'The cares of the world,' described as distracting worries about daily life; 2) 'The deceitfulness of riches,' which offer a false sense of security they can't deliver; and 3) 'The lusts of other things,' which are worldly desires that take priority and drown out spiritual matters.
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The lusts of other things (α περ τα λοιπα επιθυμια). All the passions or longings, sensual, worldly, "pleasures of this life" (ηδο…
19th Century
Baptist
The seed cannot grow in such soil as that. The man is too busy, or he is wholly taken up with pleasure; the women are too proud of themselves, or e…
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the cares of this world The perplexing and distressing cares of it to get as much of it as they can, for themselves a…
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…
