And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. As our Lord could not mean that the reaper only, and not the sewer, received "wages," in the sense of personal reward for his work, the "wages" here can be no other than the joy of having such a harvest to gather in-the joy of "gathering fruit unto life eternal." The blessed issue of the whole ingathering is the interest alike of the sower and of the reaper; it is no more the fruit of the last operation than of the first; and just as there can be no reaping without previous sowing, so have those servants of Christ, to whom is assigned the pleasant task of merely reaping the spiritual harvest, no work to do, and no joy to taste, that has not been prepared to their hand by the toilsome and often thankless work of their predecessors in the field. The joy, therefore, of the great harvest festivity will be the common joy of all who have taken any part in the work from the first operation to the last. (See Deuteronomy 16:11; Deuteronomy 16:14; Psalms 126:6; Isaiah 9:3).