They will lose the Word. Jesus warns them about it and gives them a premonition of it by speaking in these images. For now the little boat of the Teacher still lies off their coast, but if they continue to shut out his instruction it will sail away. The distance in the communication that came about through the chosen form of the images makes the threat palpable. Either the seed takes root, or it will be lost!1
15 Les uns sont le long du chemin, où la parole est semée; quand ils l'ont entendue, aussitôt Satan vient et enlève la parole qui a été semée en eux.