Reaping
Is the cutting of the corn in harvest -- Job 24:6; Le 23:10. The sickle used for -- De 16:9; Mr 4:29. Both men and women engaged in -- Ru 2:8,9. The Jews not to reap The corners of their fields. -- Le 19:9; 23:22. During the Sabbatical year. -- Le 25:5. During the year of jubilee. -- Le 25:11. The fields of others. -- De 23:25. Mode of gathering the corn for, alluded to -- Ps 129:7; Isa 17:5. Corn after, was bound up into sheaves -- Ge 37:7; Ps 129:7. Persons engaged in Under the guidance of a steward. -- Ru 2:5,6. Visited by the master. -- Ru 2:4; 2Ki 4:18. Fed by the master who himself presided at their meals. -- Ru 2:14. Received wages. -- Joh 4:36; Jas 5:4. A time of great rejoicing -- Ps 126:5,6. The Jews often hindered from, on account of their sins -- Mic 6:15. Often unprofitable on account of sin -- Jer 12:13. Illustrative of Receiving the reward of wickedness. -- Job 4:8; Pr 22:8; Ho 8:7; Ga 6:8. Receiving the reward of righteousness. -- Ho 10:12; Ga 6:8,9. Ministers receiving temporal provision for spiritual labours. -- 1Co 9:11. Gathering in souls to God. -- Joh 4:38. The judgments of God on the antichristian world. -- Re 14:14-16. The final judgment. -- Mt 13:30,39-43.