Pseudo-Jerome
Catena Aurea · Markusevangelium 4
Mk 4, Verses 26–29English original
And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
The sickle is death or the judgment, which cuts down all things; the harvest is the end of the world.