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Cockle

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

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The two names used in the original text point to plants of quite different characters:

Hence the rendering in both Douay and Authorized versions is inaccurate. It is mentioned in the parable of the man who sowed good seed in his field, but whose enemy came and oversowed cockle in the wheat (Matthew 13).

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Entry for 'Cockle'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​c/cockle.html. 1910.
 
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