grain of wheat
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
a grain of wheat · bare grain · seed · the grain · the seed
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
Paul's agricultural example used to illustrate the bodily nature of the resurrection.
In short, if he proposes examples of a grain of wheat or of any such thing, or to which God shall give a body as he will;
De Carnis Resurrectione
The grain of wheat, the sown-and-risen seed used as the governing analogy for the resurrection of the flesh.
For never, wheat being sown and dissolved in the earth, does barley burst forth, and not that very kind of grain and the same nature and quality and form.