And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room to store my crops?
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
My fruits. "Did he not," says S. Basil, "collect his crops and incur the reputation of avarice when he called them his own?" For how many dangers are there before the harvest is gathered in. The hail often beats it down, and the heat snatches it out of the very grasp, and rains suddenly rush down from the mountains and sweep it away.