And the care of this world, &c.] The cares wherewith men get worldly riches, and seeming pleasures, which men enjoy when they are rich, till they fail them in old age, 2 Sam. 19. 34, 35. Ecclesiastes 12:1. or at the time of death, Ecclesiastes 11:8. are compared to piercing thorns, choking the seed, 1 Tim. 6. 9, 10. Luke 21. 34, 35. 2 Tim. 4. 10. and he becometh unfruitfull] Or, it. The man, or the word.