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Mat 13:22. Ἠ ἀπάτη τοῦ πλούτου, the deceitfulness of riches)[616] Riches remove the soul from that tranquillity which is here opposed to the care of this world.[617]-ἄκαρπος γίνεται, becometh unfruitful) sc. the word in man becometh so (see Mar 4:19); i.e., the word in him who hears it does not arrive at good and perfect fruit fit for use: the man bringeth no fruit to perfection, οὐ τελεσφορεὶ, Luk 8:14. Thomas Magister[618] says, εὔκαρπα δένδρα, ὧν ὁ καρπός ἐστι χρήσιμος ἀνθρώποις εὶς τροφήν· ἄκαρπα, τὸ ἐναντίον, ὧν τοῖς καρποῖς οὐ χρῶνται οἱ ἄνθρωποι· ἄκαρπον δὲ, τὸ μὴ ποιοῦν καρπὸν, παρʼ οὐδενὶ τῶν παλαιῶν εὕρηται: i.e., “Trees which are styled εὔκαρπα, are those, the fruit (ΚΑΡΠΌς) of which is serviceable for food to men: ἌΚΑΡΠΑ, on the other hand, are those, the fruit of which men do not use for food: but ἌΚΑΡΠΟΝ, in the sense of having no fruit, is not found in any of the ancients.”
[616] Which is manifold in its varieties of form, and which, though it deceives men in an awful manner, yet scarcely ever seems to them worth while being taken into consideration at all.-V. g.
[617] Συμπνίγει, choke) Many engage in the discussion (treating) of the Word of GOD in such a way as if the heart were not a field in which the seed is to remain and grow, but a granary which can contain at one time less stores, at another time more-at one time something, at another time nothing.-V. g.
[618] THOMAS MAGISTER, surnamed THEODULUS (ΘΕΟΔΟΥΛΟΣ, The Servant of GOD), was a Monk and a Grammarian, who flourished at the beginning of the fourteenth century. Saxius describes him as “vocum Atticarum magister.”-(I. B.)