Stony places. — Either ground in which stones and pebbles were mingled with the soil, or, more probably, where a thin stratum of earth covered the solid rock. Here, of course, growth was rapid through the very circumstance which was afterwards fatal.
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Matthew 13:5
5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: