Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
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Titus of Bostra
AD 378
The elder son then as a husbandmen was engaged in husbandry, digging not the land, but the field of the soul, and planting trees of salvation, that is to say, the virtues.