“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from Heaven.”
Do you perceive the type? What is this Pentecost? The time when the sickle was to be put to the harvest, and the ingathering was made. See now the reality, when the time had come to put in the sickle of the word: for here, as the sickle, keen-edged, came the Spirit down.
For hear the words of Christ: “Lift up your eyes,” He said, “and look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest.” And again, “The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few.” But as the first-fruits of this harvest, He Himself took [our nature], and bore it up on high. Himself first put in the sickle. Therefore also He calls the Word the Seed.
