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Plow (and Forms)
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
or Deuteronomy 22:10 (b) The ox represents the Christian, the ass represents the sinner, yoked together in Christian service. The friend of GOD and the enemy of GOD should not try to do the work of GOD in the harvest fields. The ox is a clean animal, the ass is an unclean animal, and they will not work together.
Judges 14:18 (a) The picture that is used in this verse describes the association between the Philistines and the wife. The wife is compared to the heifer, and his enemies are compared to those who do the plowing, or conniving with her.
Job 4:8 (a) The cultivation of sin and sinful programs of evil acts is described as preparing the ground for the seed, as is done in plowing. It is as when one builds a bar in his home that liquor may be served.
Psalm 129:3 (a) The Lord JESUS is telling us about the wicked soldiers who would tear open His blessed back by the use of the flail, or the cat-o-nine-tails. They did this very thing to Him on that fateful night. He was beaten with many stripes.
Hosea 10:11 (b) The passage reads as though GOD's people of both Judah and Israel would destroy their enemies and break up the ground as with a plow, so that their enemies would be made desolate.
Amos 6:12 (a) The Lord is informing us that some fields of labor will not produce a crop. They are hard and with no good soil. There is no use working in such a place for GOD. There is no use planting seed there. There is no use plowing the ground there. No crop would be produced, and horses will not want to either work there or feed there. When we find that we are serving in a place where there is no response, or where there is actual enmity, we are expected to move on into a district where the seed will grow.
Isaiah 28:24 (b) A beautiful symbol of the evangelist or Bible teacher presenting the form of ministry which is intended to prepare the heart later for the sowing of the Gospel seed. It usually refers to preaching messages which will convict of sin, reveal the leprosy in the life, and diagnose the case. The argument in the passage is that no one is to preach that kind of message all the time. He is to get through plowing, then harrow the ground, and then put in the good Gospel seed.
Luke 9:62 (b) Putting the hand to the plow is a type of Christians taking hold of the service of the Lord (such as teach a Sunday School class or taking any other Christian work); then instead of going forward, they keep looking back with longing eyes and hearts to the former life.
1 Corinthians 9:10 (b) The plowing is done with the hope of a harvest to follow. So the preacher preaches, plows up the ground and plants the seed with a joyful hope that GOD will give him souls for his hire.
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Watson, Walter. Entry for 'Plow (and Forms)'. Wilson's Dictoinary of Bible Types. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/wdt/p/plow-and-forms.html. 1957.
