Living_Oracles(i)
16 The rocky ground denotes those, who, hearing the word, receive it first with pleasure;
17 yet not having it rooted in their minds, retain it but a while; for when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they instantly relapse.
18 The ground overrun with thorns, denotes those hearers
19 in whom worldly cares, and delusive riches, and the inordinate desire of other things, stifle the word, and render it unfruitful.
20 The good soil on which some grains yielded thirty, some sixty, and some a hundred, denotes those who hear the word, and retain it, and produce the fruits thereof.