Mustard seed

As a grain of mustard seed (Latin granum sinapis ) of the seeds of some representatives of the plant genera mustard and cabbage is called.

The seeds of the black mustard consists of blackish - brown red beads, which are densely covered with dimples and have a bitter acrid taste. The seeds of the white mustard consists of yellow, smooth beads that taste just sharp. For a long time been used as a medicine processed black and white whole grains. When whole grains are both used for cooking, roasting and marinating. Only those of the White mustard for example be used to load gherkins and pickles as well as for making sausage. From the seeds of both seed mustard different products are produced.

Literary adaptation

Although not all mustards produce very small seeds, the mustard seed is true both in Western culture as well as in Asia as a metaphor for something very small.

In his parable of the mustard seed (Matthew 13:31-32 EU, Mk 4.30 to 32 EU) Jesus referred to it as the smallest of all seeds, is from something quite big. It is probable that he refers to the seeds of black mustard. In reference to this parable small Bibles are called Mustard Seed Bible. Some Christian initiatives bear the Latin or German word in their names, such as the Mustard Seed Order. A famous folk language, mystical poem or even a song text, which / r was delivered in several manuscripts of the 14th and 15th century, got its title Granum sinapis by a Latin commentary, which is attributed to the theologian Meister Eckhart.

Shane Claiborne interprets the parable in a way that the object of comparison of mustard seed the little of the seed and the size of the plant is not, but the weed -like rapid spread of the kingdom of God.

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