In the furrows of the field

In the furrows of the field.

Calvin puts this question, Why does he not say, it springs up in the field, but in the furrows of the field? And he gives this answer to it: Where there are furrows in the field, there has the plow come that has broken up the field, and it is to prepare for good seed when the field is laid in furrows, and it's less tolerable for hemlock to spring up there than in the field that is not plowed, or in other places.

But when a field is plowed and prepared for seed, and one would hope to have much advantage by his field; to have much justice and righteousness in a country, when we see there has been great works of God to cast out those that were unjust before, and the expectation of all the people is, that certainly now there will be nothing but righteousness and judgment; but instead of that comes up injustice and oppression, as hemlock, it springeth up in such a field that is so prepared for justice. Oh! this is that which is a sore evil, that the Lord is so provoked against, and so complains of, that judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.