The gospel of Virgil

1 The Lord then spoke of a father and son who lived in the region of Marquettica : " The father held only but a small patch of land to grow his tomatos. Yet he would water them correctly, tending to their roots and the soil each morning before it got hot. He would pluck off the small branches, called suckers because nothing good could grow from, to strenghten each individual plant. 2 He would wait until each fruit was just correctly ripe before harvesting it. 3 And in the winter, the father would continually compost his patch, each year making it bigger and more productive. 4 Each year the family would benefit greatly from the produce by eating what they could and selling the rest at market. 5 The many in the village would share with the family, and would enjoy the healthy and nourshing vegatables. 6 When the father passed on after a life of tireless work, the son inherited the land. 7 The garden, only a shallow stony affair when the father has first started to work on it, had - 8 because of the fathers relentless surender of himself to his families fortunes- 9 now become a great and productive farm of many acres, with organtically sound, pest free, rich, well watered soil capable of fully feeding the multitudes. 10 Corretly harvested, the son - 11 because of the sacrifices of the father had investedin him, the son now was with certain powers that the father could never have for himself- 12 was in a position to better the fathers harvest by seven times sevenfold and so feed his family and the families of all in the the community. 13 Yet the son, squandering the gifts his father had invested in him, could only make the plants grow to one third the size the father had. 14 Although the son spent a lot of time tending the soil, terrible weeds grew that overtook all the son tried to do. 15 Despite attempting to correctly water the tomatoes, the weeds grew strong and drank all that was meant for the crops. 16 Although the son poured the table scraps into the garden digilently, this strenght was stolen by the weeds in its relentless quest to destroy. 17 And despite the many successful attemtps by the son to get rid of various weeds, each attempt was given up before the weeds were fully and finally evicted from the garden. 18 I say to you, if the does not act as the father did and clear all of the weeds off of the land, correctly water and tend his plants, the sons harvest will never be enough to feed the community or his family, not to speak of feeding even himself. 19 But corrctly tended by the son, this garden can contribute uncountable life to the count of seven times seven times seven."