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Mat 13:19. Μὴ συνίετος, understandeth it not) The verb συνίεναι signifies to understand.[612] The Evil One, or devil, who especially, rather than his angels, is meant by the fowls of the air, has less power over those things which have entered into the σύνεσις, or understanding.-ἁρπάζει, catcheth away) sc. with violence and quick cunning, like a bird of prey; see Mat 13:4.-ἐν τῂ καρδίᾳ, in his heart.-ὁ σπαρεὶς, he that is sown) i.e. as a farm is sown.
[612] That such is Bengel’s meaning is clear from his own German Version, where he renders μὴ συνίεντος by “und nicht vernimmt”-(I. B.)