eternal Son—God of God, Light of Light, True God of True God—the Second Person of the Holy and Undivided Trinity. Do you see what that says? It says, first of all, that the Sower is God the Father, not Jesus. What Jesus turns out to be—since he is the Word—is the seed sown. But note what that in turn means. It means that on the plain terms of the parable, Jesus has already, and literally, been sown everywhere in the world—and quite without a single bit of earthly cooperation or even consent. But