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Mat 9:37. Ὁ μὲν θερισμός, κ.τ.λ., The harvest indeed, etc.) He repeated the same words[436] to the Seventy; see Luk 10:2.-θερισμὸς, harvest) i.e. in the New Testament, for in the Old Testament it was the time for sowing. See Joh 4:35-36. And again, the present time is the season of sowing; the end of the world the harvest.-πολὺς, plenteous) See ch. Mat 10:23.-ἐργάται, labourers) Fit persons to whom the work should be entrusted.
[436] After the lapse of a year.-B. H. E. p. 288.