But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
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Gregory The Dialogist
AD 604
In Ezech, 2, Hom. 3: Or else, Man casts seed into the ground, when he places a good intention in his heart; and he sleeps, when he already rests in the hope which attends on a good work. Buthe rises night and day, because he advances amidst prosperity and adversity, though he knows it not, for he is as yet unable to measure his increase, and yet virtue, once conceived, goes on increasing. When therefore we conceive good desires, weput seed into the ground; when we begin to work rightly, we are the blade. Whenwe increase to the perfection of good works, we arrive at the ear; when we are firmly fixed in the perfection of the same working, we already put forth the full corn in the ear.
