after the description came its results: so in the case of the heavenly wisdom. There the results were present; here, future, fruit … sown—(cf. Ps. 97:11; Isa. 61:3.) The seed whose “fruit,” “righteousness,” shall be ultimately reaped, is now “sown in peace.” “Righteousness,” now in germ, when developed as “fruit,” shall be itself the everlasting reward of the righteous. As ‘sowing in peace’ (cf. Prov. 11:18; Hos. 10:12; 1 Cor. 15:43; Cal. 6:8) produces the “fruit of righteousness,” so, conversely,
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