'The weeds may not be real wheat, but they look just like it; if the servants can be inveigled into taking up arms against them, a truly catholic and actual disaster can be brewed.
And one almost is. Coming to the farmer, the servants are totally preoccupied with the problem of evil, "you sowed good seed in you field, didn't you, Sir?" they ask him. "Where then did the weeds come from?" Just like two thousand years' worth of Christian theologians- though more excusably, perhaps, since the workers were ignorant of the crucifixion- their first intellectual efforts are directed, not to finding out how they should act in the presence of evil, but to looking for an explanation of it that they can understand'
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