March 2nd: Exodus 9 & Matthew 13:24-43
March 1, 2020
Alastair Roberts
Pestilence, boils, and hail. The Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds.
Leviticus 13 (the plague of leprosy); Deuteronomy 28:27, 35 (the boils of Egypt); Exodus 4:6-8 (the sign of leprosy).
Matthew 9:37-38 (fields white for harvest); Psalm 78 (the psalm Matthew references); Ezekiel 17 (the parable of the eagles and the cedar); Daniel 4:10-12 (Nebuchadnezzar as a tree); Daniel 2:35 (the stone growing to become a mountain that filled the earth).
Reflections upon the readings from the ACNA Book of Common Prayer (http://bcp2019.anglicanchurch.net/).
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