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Sprang up
The seed, therefore, fell, not among standing thorns, but among those beneath the surface, ready to spring up.
Trench (“Parables”) cites a striking parallel from Ovid, describing the obstacles to the growth of the grain:
“Now the too ardent sun, vow furious showers,
With baleful stars and bitter winds combine
The crop to ravage; while the greedy fowl
Snatch the strewn seeds; and grass with stubborn roots,
And thorn and darnel plague the ripening grain.”
Metamorphoses, v., 486.