and as he sowed it chanced that some seed fell on the road, and the birds came and ate it up;
When anyone hears the word of the Realm and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart; that is the man who is sown 'on the road.'
As for those 'on the road,' when the seed is sown there — as soon as they hear it, Satan at once comes and carries off the word sown within them.
and as he sowed some seeds fell on the road and the birds came and ate them up.
Those 'on the road' are people who hear; but then the devil comes and carries off the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.
"A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the road and was trampled down, and the wild birds ate it up;
"Listen, a sower went out to sow,
some other seed fell on stony soil where it had not much earth, and it shot up at once because it had no depth of earth,