Sowing and Ploughing

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about 1917 Carving on the end of a pew. medium: wood technique: carved designer: Mary Davies-Evans artist: Joseph Reubens Church of St Gwenog, Llanwenog, Ceredigion nave The scene commemorates the 1917 year of ploughing in the parish. The names of the farmers and their acreage is given at the base. Beneath the sower, the text 'I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase' is given from 1 Corinthians 3:6.  (ObjectID=530 ImageID=1169) Original File Name=DSCN5784.jpg

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• harvest 
• ploughing 
• sowing - agriculture 
• the sower - parable of Christ  [Matthew 13:3-9; Mark 4:3-9; Luke 8:5-8]

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 536.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales