The Plow | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 28, 1864

The Plow.

The plow used in Syria is so light and simple in its construction, that the husbandman is under the necessity of guiding it with great care, bending over it, and loading it with his own weight, else the share would glide along the surface without making any incision. His mind should be wholly intent on his work, at once to press the plow into the ground, and direct it in a straight line. ‑Let the plowman,‑ said Hesiod, ‑attend to his charge, and look before him; not turn aside to look on his associates, but make straight furrows, and have his mind attentive to his work.‑ And Pliny, ‑Unless the plowman stoop forward,‑ to press his plow into the soil and conduct it properly, ‑he will turn it aside.‑ To such careful and incessant exertion our Lord alludes in that declaration: ‑No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.‑