The harvest comes joyfully from the fields, and a yield that is rich and pleasant from the vine; and and from the Scriptures teaching that is life-giving and salutary.  The fields have but one season of harvest; but from the Scripture there gushes forth a stream of saving doctrine. The field when reaped lies idle, and at rest, and the branches when the vine is stripped lie withered and dead.  The Scriptures are garnered each day, yet the years of its interpreters never come to an end; and the clusters of its vines, which in it are those of hope, though also gathered each day, are likewise without end.  Let us therefore come to this field, and take our delights of its life-giving furrows; and let us reap there the wheat of life, that is, the words of Our Lord Jesus Christ.