Bible Dictionary: The Harvest: Former and Latter Rain Necessary to Abundance of

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Jeremiah 5:24
Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
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Amos 4:7
And also I have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city: one piece was rained on, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
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Library

The First Year --Society and Climate.
... to have a great official advantage over the latter; but forty ... so much used by farmers
in former days, with ... Within three months the harvest of the rainy season ...
/.../chapter vi the first yearsociety.htm

New Teaching in Parables' - the Parables to the People by the Lake ...
... In the latter case, a sack with holes was filled ... that portion of the field, which
the former Parable had ... forth [2841] the sickle, because the harvest is come ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xxiii new teaching in.htm

The Cry for Bread
... halves make one whole; and as the former begins with ... greatness in the heavens, so
the latter part, starting ... There would be no harvest, no growth, unless to ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/the cry for bread.htm

Selections from the Work against Heresies by Irenaeus, Bishop of ...
... [1054] The former was seduced to disobey God [1055] [and so fell], but the latter
was persuaded ... or perhaps more generally, do not gather the harvest with the ...
/.../richardson/early christian fathers/selections from the work against 2.htm

The First Stages. Ch. 9:51 to 13:21
... must earnestly pray the Lord of the harvest to send ... Some readers interpret the former
parable as indicating the ... at times assumes, and the latter the false ...
/.../erdman/the gospel of luke an exposition/a the first stages ch.htm

Letter Xciii. (AD 408. )
... the former impelled by lust, the latter under the ... of which the obscure meaning of
the former may be ... the gathering of the tares before the harvest,"and for ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter xciii a d 408.htm

Sermons on Selected Lessons of the Gospels.
... so heavenly, [1118]488; must prepare heart for latter, as stomach for former,
[1119]488 ... Harvest, two kinds of, one among Jews, the other amongst Gentiles ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of.htm

CHAP. I. -II. 3 (II. 1).
... now sow the small seed of Israel, and an infinitely rich harvest shall be ... But the
latter reference is altogether arbitrary; and the former could be ...
/.../hengstenberg/christology of the old testament/chap i -ii 3 ii 1.htm

Introduction to Oration ii.
... we are aware; and will reap a harvest of pain ... are confused and thrown into disorder
by the latter. ... a twofold task, the erasure of the former impressions and ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/introduction to oration ii.htm

The Holy City; Or, the New Jerusalem:
... return again he would give them both their former light of ... glorious state of the
church in the latter days; some ... for lo, the winter is past the rain is over ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the holy city or the.htm

Subtopics

Harvest

Harvest of Barley, Before Wheat

Harvest of Wheat at Pentecost, in Palestine

Harvest: And of Wheat Before Harvest Time

Harvest: Celebrated With Joy

Harvest: Figurative

Harvest: Promises of Plentiful

Harvest: Sabbath Desecrated In

Harvest: Sabbath to be Observed In

The Harvest of a Time of Judgment

The Harvest of a Time when Many are Ready to Receive the Gospel