Gospel they were then ready for the seed, and with its furrow now fruitful they yielded grain of thirty-, sixty-, and a hundredfold.12 4. But this very method of cultivation employed by the ancient and heavenly Farmer is not new; for he has always had the habit of planting the Law and sowing grace by using fire. When he was about to give the Law he first lit a fire in the bramble bush, but the bush bore the divine blaze, it did not produce it,13 even then prefiguring the people who were full of the