"For a moment, they [the apostles] can recognise themselves in the master's servants, looking at the world as they looked at the cultivated field. [...] And everything he says must ultimately have an impact on their successors and their apostolate, so that it is transformed into an attempt at full and genuine correspondence. [...] And if the Lord in the parable shows the judgement in advance, then their time of waiting, of patience, of having to be together with evil on earth, takes on a new meaning, which here below can never be fully understood, because understanding lies in the “acting” of the “Lord” on the day of harvest, at the end of their mission."
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Adrienne von Speyr, Le parabole del Signore (Gleichnisse des Herrn, 1966), translation into Italian by Giuseppe Reguzzoni, Jaca Book, Milano, 2008, pp. 40-41. ISBN 978-88-16-30459-8.
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