As we continue our journey through the Italian New Testament, we have finished the book of Matteo, Matthew; and have already crossed over into Marco, Mark. But before we look into our first scriptures in Marco, let me just mention a previous lesson from Matteo 25. It was about the talents a man gave to his servants and it talked about different forms of the word fruit in Italian: including fruttare, as well as the phrase farli fruttare. (Briefly, farli fruttare means to yield, or you could say "to make fruitful.")
It's the parable of the sower and the seed and therefore speaks of
the ground or the earth, la terra.
There are
many lessons in this familiar parable, but the basis of it is something
Italians tend to be very aware of. Not just that you have to sow seed to get a
harvest, but also that you can't just sow it any old place… At least not if you want
to have a good harvest and bring forth much fruit.
