Flood and drown

Meaning

Flooding names a failure of nourishment through excess. The body may become over-wet and be spoiled, just as a farmer’s seed drowns instead of sprouting when overwhelmed by moisture. Water is therefore not beneficial simply by being plentiful. The comparison supports the text’s insistence on measured, gradual assistance, but should not be reconstructed as a practical schedule here. The English’s “might” preserves the conditional warning: the author describes what can go wrong if the limit is ignored. The drowned seed also shows how the work’s agricultural images can explain failure as well as growth and multiplication.