Pray you therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.
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Glossa Ordinaria
AD 1480
Non occ.: He taught in their synagogues the Gospel of the Kingdom, as it follows, “Preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom.”.
ap. Anselm: By “disease” we may understand complaints of long standing, by "sickness” any lesser infirmity.
ap. Anselm: Or, “troubled,” by daemons, and “sick,” that is, benumbed and unable to rise; as though they had shepherds, yet they were as though they had them not.
ap. Anselm: The harvest are those men who can be reaped by the preachers, and separated from the number of the damned, as grain is beaten out from the chaff that it may be laid up in granaries.
