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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, January 14, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 5

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While Men Slept.

MATT. XIII, 25. But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
THE first thought suggested by this passage is that, it was in the night time, while men slept, that the enemy came and sowed tares; but the night season is an unnatural time for such a work. The Domestic Bible informs us that it was common in the East anciently, as at the present day, for men to spend a portion of the middle of each day in sleep. During this “rest-hour,” therefore, the enemy could come and sow his tares; and with this idea, the parable is relieved of everything unnatural or improbable.