some seeds fell by the wayes side] Some high-wayes go thorow plowed fields not enclosed in champain countries, such as it seems that was where our Saviour conversed, Chap. 12. 1. There the seed could not enter, because the ground was hardened by the feet of the passengers, and the seed lying on the ground, was never received into the earth at all. So some hearers receive no benefit by the word, either because they hear regardlessely, or understand not what they hear, verse 19. the fowls came and devoured them up] Here is another cause why they grew not. What the earth would not receive, the fowls carried away.