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  • verb archaic Second-person singular present simple form of sow

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sow + -est

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Examples

  • Surely these two passages, from the works of the celebrated physician and philosopher, may justify an effort to gather moral lessons from some of the wonderful facts in God's creation: the more especially as St. Paul himself led the way to such a mode of instruction, in arguing the possibility of the resurrection of the body from the resurrection of vegetable life out of a decayed [Page] seed: "Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die!"

    Parables From Nature 1857

  • To the former the apostle replies by telling them this was to be brought about by divine power, that very power which they had all observed to do something very like it, year after year, in the death and revival of the corn; and therefore it was an argument of great weakness and stupidity to doubt whether the resurrection of the dead might not be effected by the same power: Thou fool! that which thou sowest is not quickened unless it die, v. 36.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • 36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • [4487] For he declares, "That which thou sowest cannot be quickened, unless first it die."

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

    1 Corinthians 15. 1999

  • '_Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die_ ....'

    The Gay Cockade Temple Bailey

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