The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
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He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one. The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
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The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.
The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,
and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
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And the enemye that soweth the is the devell. The harvest is the end of the worlde. And the repers be the angels.
For even as the tares are gaddred and bret in the fyre: so shall it be in the ende of this worlde.
The sonne of man shall send forth his angels and they shall gather out of his kyngdome all thinges that offende and them which do iniquite
and shall cast them into a furnes of fyre. There shalbe waylynge and gnasshing of teth.
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And the enemie that soweth them, is the deuill, and the haruest is the end of the worlde, and the reapers be the Angels.
As then the tares are gathered and burned in ye fire, so shall it be in the end of this world.
The Sonne of man shall send forth his Angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which doe iniquitie,
And shall cast them into a fornace of fire. There shalbe wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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- Matthew 24:31 (v41) He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one…
- Matthew 13:49 (vv39, 41) So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
- Matthew 13:50 (v42) and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”
- Revelation 14:15-19 (v39) Another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, “Send your sickle, and reap; for the hour to…
- Matthew 25:31 (v39) “But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
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- Joel 3:13 (v39) Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the wine press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.”
- Matthew 8:12 (v42) but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
- Matthew 18:7 (v41) “Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the…
- Luke 16:23-24 (v42) In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham,…
- 2 Peter 2:1-2 (v41) But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies,…
- Revelation 20:10 (v42) The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be…
- Revelation 20:14-15 (v42) Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. If anyone was not found written in the book…
- Revelation 21:27 (v41) There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the…
- Revelation 19:20 (vv39, 42) The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the…
- Matthew 13:39 (v40) The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
- Matthew 13:25 (v39) but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.
- Matthew 24:3 (v39) As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of…
- 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 (v39) and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,…
- Revelation 12:9 (v39) The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown…
- Revelation 13:14 (v39) He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast, saying to those who dwell…
- Psalms 21:9 (v42) You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
- Daniel 3:6 (v42) Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”
- Mark 9:43-49 (v42) If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go…
- Romans 2:8-9 (v41) but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation, oppression, and anguish…
- Romans 2:16 (v41) in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.
- Ephesians 6:11-12 (v39) Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For our wrestling is not against flesh and…
- Hebrews 1:6-7 (v41) When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.” Of the angels he says, “He makes his…
- Hebrews 1:14 (v41) Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
- Hebrews 9:26 (v39) or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put…
- 1 Peter 5:8 (v39) Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
- Revelation 5:11-12 (v41) I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was…
- Revelation 14:10 (v42) he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and…
- Daniel 3:15-17 (v42) Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and…
- Daniel 3:21-22 (v42) Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were cast into the middle of the…
- Daniel 7:10 (v39) A fiery stream issued and came out from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before…
- Matthew 3:12 (v42) His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the…
- Matthew 7:22-23 (v41) Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty…
- Matthew 13:28 (v39) “He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’
- Matthew 22:13 (v42) Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the…
- Matthew 25:41 (v42) Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his…
- Matthew 28:20 (v39) teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
- Luke 13:26-27 (v41) Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know…
- Luke 13:28 (v42) There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being…
- Romans 16:17-18 (v41) Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you…
- 2 Corinthians 2:17 (v39) For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 11:3 (v39) But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is…
- 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 (v39) For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles. And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an…
- Ephesians 2:2 (v39) in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works…
- 2 Thessalonians 2:8-11 (v39) Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his…
- Jude 1:14 (v39) About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
- Revelation 20:2-3 (v39) He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand…
- Revelation 20:7-10 (v39) And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four…
- Revelation 21:8 (v42) But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in…
- Zephaniah 1:3 (v41) I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I…
- Matthew 8:20 (v41) Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
- Mark 13:27 (v41) Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of…
- Revelation 9:2 (v42) He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened…
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv39–42 39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil;…
39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Ver. 39. The enemy that sowed them, &c.] As Esther said, "The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman," so Satan. Why then have men so much to do with him? The Jews, as often as they hear mention of Haman in their synagogues, they do with their fists and hammers beat upon the benches and boards, as if they did knock upon Haman’s head. We have those also that can bid defiance to the devil, spit at his name, curse him, haply; {a} but in the meantime listen to his illusions, entertain him into their hearts by obeying his lusts. These are singularly foolish. For it is as if one should be afraid of the name of fire, and yet not fear to be burnt with the flame thereof.
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{a} Martinus Papae exactor ex Anglia pulsus, cum a Rege salvum conductum peteret, respondit, Rex, Diabolus te ad inferos ducat et perducat, ad mare tamen ei conmeatum dedit. Revius.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On v40 As in the common practice of men, when they…
As in the common practice of men, when they have a mind to pick their corn, and have it clean, when it is reaped, to set men to clean the wheat, and to pick out the tares, and, having tied them up in bundles, to burn them, so (saith he) I will do. I will send my angels at the day of judgment, and they shall take out of my church all impenitent sinners, all those who in this world have been scandals, and offences, and mischievous to my people, and who have made it their business to work iniquity.
And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. That is, into hell, which, in regard of the severe torments which the damned shall feel there, is often in Scripture compared to fire, as Mat 25:41, and in other texts, by which is only set out to us the dreadfulness of the punishment of the damned, that is proportioned to, if not far exceeding, that of the burning living bodies in fire. Having thus expressed the punishment of wicked men, he expounds what he means by gathering the wheat into his barn, viz. the taking of righteous men to heaven.
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Then, saith he,
shall the righteous, those whom I have clothed with my righteousness, and who have lived in obedience to my will to that degree, that though they be not perfectly righteous, yet are sincere and upright, so as I have accepted them,
shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father: an expression much like that of Dan 12:2,3, significative of that glorious state of the saints in heaven, which no eye having seen, nor ear having heard, no tongue is able to express. He concludes in the same manner as he concludes the parable of the sower, exciting his hearers to a diligent consideration and belief of what he had said.
Our Saviour adding no particular explication of the two parables delivered, Mat 13:31-33, the disciples not asking him to explain them, and the evangelist having put the explication of the first parable after them, it is reasonable, that though I omitted the explication of them in their proper place, yet I should add something here for the benefit of those who possibly will not be able so readily to conceive our Saviour’s meaning in them without an interpreter as the disciples did, which is thought to be the reason why they asked no explication of them. The one is the parable of the
grain of mustard seed, Mat 13:31,32; the other, the parable of
leaven hid in three measures of meal, Mat 13:33. The scope of both is the same. Our Saviour intended them both to let his disciples know the success that his gospel should have over all the world, that they might not be discouraged at the little success of it at present. To this purpose he compares it, first, to
a grain of mustard seed, which, he saith,
is the least of all seeds, that is, one of the least of seeds, or the least seed that produces so great a plant; but becomes a tree so high,
that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. Though that small seed with us runs up to a great height, and produces a plant which hath branches considerable enough to lodge birds which sit low, yet we must not judge of what grew in those countries by what groweth in ours; there are strange and almost incredible stories told of that plant by naturalists, as to its growth in some hot and fertile countries. Christ by this foretold his disciples, what following ages quickly verified, that the heathen should entertain the gospel, and the sound of it should go to the ends of the earth, notwithstanding its present small appearance. Upon the same score he compares it to a little
leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal, till the whole mass of meal was leavened. By these two expressions our Saviour also lets us know the quick and powerful nature of the word; that Christ’s words are (as he said) spirit of life, and have a hidden and extraordinary virtue in them. I do not think it worth the while to inquire into the contents of these σατα or measures of meal, and why he mentions but three. They are curiosities, the knowledge of which turneth to no account. Our Saviour certainly, by the expression, designed only to hint the small number of the Jews that believed in him, but foretold a far greater harvest.
The law should go forth out of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem, as Isaiah prophesied, Isa 2:3; but many people (after them) should say, Come ye, let us go up to the mountain of the house of the Lord.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv39–42 The Son of man shall send forth his angels,....…
The Son of man shall send forth his angels,.... Meaning himself, whose ministers the angels are; who wait upon him, and are at his beck and command; even the thousand thousands that minister unto him; these will be sent forth by his orders, into the several parts of the world, where he has any churches, or an interest,
and they shall gather out of his kingdom: the Gospel church, over which Christ is king, where he rules and governs in the hearts of his people; and who are cheerfully and willingly obedient to his laws, under the influence of his Spirit and grace: but all who are in the visible Gospel church state, are not such; some are wicked and rebellious, and though they are suffered to continue, yet not always; for if not removed by censures and excommunications, they will be at last by angels; who will separate them from the saints:
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even all things that offend; who are scandals to Christ, his church, and Gospel, by their wicked principles, or infamous practices; and who give offence, not only to God, and his righteous law, but lay stumbling blocks in the way of the children of God, and are the authors of divisions and offences among them:
and them that do iniquity; that do nothing else but iniquity; and who, though they profess to be religious persons, are secretly, or openly, workers of iniquity; and are even doing iniquity, in and whilst they are professing religion.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v41 They shall gather all things that offend - Whatever…
They shall gather all things that offend - Whatever had hindered or grieved the children of God; whatever things or persons had hindered the good seed which Christ had sown from taking root or bearing fruit. The Greek word is, All scandals.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v40 Mat 13:40-43. As the tares are gathered — At…
Mat 13:40-43. As the tares are gathered — At the command of the owner of the field; and burnt in the fire — So totally destroyed as never to revive and flourish again; so shall it be at the end of the world — With regard to the finally impenitent: their destruction, not their annihilation, shall be complete and eternal; without any hope or possibility of a restoration. See note on Mat 3:12. The Son of man shall send forth his angels — Who shall all attend him on that solemn occasion, Mat 25:31. What a high idea does our Lord here give us of himself; representing the holy angels as his attendants, who shall wait on him at the last day, and at his order assemble the whole world before him! And they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend — Whatever had grieved the children of God, or been an obstruction to them in their Christian course; whatever things or persons had hindered the good seed which Christ had sown from taking root or bearing fruit. The Greek, παντα τα σκανδαλα, is, all the scandals, or, stumbling-blocks. And them which do iniquity — Who shall now be perfectly and eternally separated from the righteous, and excluded from Christ’s kingdom. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire — These blessed spirits, as the executioners of the divine vengeance, shall cast them into the unquenchable fire of hell. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth — The most extreme torment, attended with the height of anguish, rage, and despair; a despair aggravated by all the privileges they once enjoyed, and the vain hope which, as professors of the true religion, they once entertained. Therefore they shall not be annihilated, nor their misery alleviated by any expectation of being ever restored or delivered from their sufferings. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun — “Being freed from all the humbling circumstances which attend mortality, they shall shine like the sun in the firmament for brightness and beauty and shall find no diminution of their splendour by age. A noble image this to represent the glory and happiness of the righteous with God their Father.” Who hath ears to hear, let him hear — “This exclamation intimates, that truths of greater importance and solemnity cannot be uttered than those which respect the final misery of the wicked, and the inconceivable happiness of the righteous, and that all who have the faculty of reason, ought therefore to regard them with becoming attention.” — Macknight.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv39, 41, 42 The enemy that sowed them is the devil--emphatically "His…
The enemy that sowed them is the devil--emphatically "His enemy" (Mat 13:25). (See Gen 3:15; Jo1 3:8). By "tares" is meant, not what in our husbandry is so called, but some noxious plant, probably darnel. "The tares are the children of the wicked one"; and by their being sown "among the wheat" is meant their being deposited within the territory of the visible Church. As they resemble the children of the kingdom, so they are produced, it seems, by a similar process of "sowing"--the seeds of evil being scattered and lodging in the soil of those hearts upon which falls the seed of the world. The enemy, after sowing his "tares," "went his way"--his dark work soon done, but taking time to develop its true character.
The harvest is the end of the world--the period of Christ's second coming, and of the judicial separation of the righteous and the wicked. Till then, no attempt is to be made to effect such separation. But to stretch this so far as to justify allowing openly scandalous persons to remain in the communion of the Church, is to wrest the teaching of this parable to other than its proper design, and go in the teeth of apostolic injunctions (1Co. 5).
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And the reapers are the angels--But whose angels are they? "The Son of man shall send forth His angels" (Mat 13:41). Compare Pe1 3:22, "Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him."
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv40–42 40. End of this world — The end of…
40. End of this world — The end of probationary time. While that lasts the good and evil mingle together. Then comes the world of retribution, in which the good and evil are parted into separate states of reward.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv39, 41, 42 (39) The enemy that sowed them is the devil.—Here,…
(39) The enemy that sowed them is the devil.—Here, as in the parable of the Sower, there is the most distinct recognition of a personal power of evil, the enemy of God thwarting His work. It will be noticed that our Lord, as if training His disciples gradually in the art of the interpreter, gives rather the heads of an explanation of the parable than one that enters fully into details; and it is therefore open to us, as it was to them, to pause and ask what was taught by that which seems almost the most striking and most important part of the parable. Who were the servants? What was meant by their question, and the answer of the householder? The answers under these heads supply, it will be seen, a solution of many problems in the history and policy of the Church of Christ. (1.) The enemy sowed the tares “while men slept.” The time of danger for the Church is one of apparent security. Men cease to watch. Errors grow up and develop into heresies, carelessness passes into license, and offences abound. (2.) The “servants” are obviously distinct from the “reapers.” and represent the zealous pastors of the Church. Their first impulse is to clear the kingdom from evil by extirpating the doers of the evil. But the householder in the parable is at once more patient and more discerning than they. To seek for the ideal of a perfect Church in that way may lead to worse evils than those it attempts to remedy. True wisdom is found, for the most part, in what might seem the policy of indifference, “Let both grow together until the harvest.” That is the broad, salient lesson of the parable. At first it may seem at variance with what enters into our primary conceptions, alike of ecclesiastical discipline and of the duty of civil rulers. Is it not the work of both to root out the tares, to punish evil-doers? The solution of the difficulty is found, as it were, in reading “between the lines” of the parable. Doubtless, evil is to be checked and punished alike in the Church and in civil society, but it is not the work of the rulers of either to extirpate the doers. Below the surface there lies the latent truth that, by a spiritual transmutation which was not possible in the natural framework of the parable, the tares may become the wheat. There is no absolute line of demarcation separating one from the other till the time of harvest. What the parable condemns, therefore, is the over-hasty endeavour to attain an ideal perfection, the zeal of the founders of religious orders, of Puritanism in its many forms. It would have been well if those who identify the tares with heretics had been more mindful of the lesson which that identification suggests.
The harvest is the end of the world.—Strictly speaking, the end of the age—i.e., of the period that precedes the “coming” of the Son of Man as Judge, which is to usher in the “world,” or the “age,” to come.
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The reapers are the angels.—What will be the actual work of the ministry of angels in the final judgment it is not easy to define, but their presence is implied in all our Lord’s greater prophetic utterances about it (Mat_25:31). That ministry had been brought prominently before men in the apocalyptic visions of the Book of Daniel, in which for the first time the name of the Son of Man is identified with the future Christ (Mat_7:13), and the Messianic kingdom itself brought into new distinctness in connection with a final judgment. Our Lord’s teaching does but expand the hints of the “thousand times ten thousand” that ministered before the Ancient of Days when the books were opened (Dan_7:9-10), and of Michael the prince as connected with the resurrection of “many that sleep in the dust of the earth” (Dan_12:1-2).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv39–42 The enemy that sowed them (o speirav); contrast ver.…
The enemy that sowed them (o speirav); contrast ver. 37 (oo speirwn to kalorma). Ver. 37 states what is ever true; ver. 39 merely refers back to the enemy spoken of in the parable. Is the devil. (Mat_4:1, note) (For the thought of this and the preceding clause, see Joh_8:44 1Jn_3:8, 1Jn_3:10) The harvest is the end of the world; literally, as the margin of the Revised Version, the consummation of the age (sunteleia aiwnov); when the present age shall have received its completion, and the more glorious one be ushered in. (cf. Mat_12:32, note) And the reapers are the angels; are angels (Revised Version). But it is exactly parallel to the preceding predicate, and if the insertion of our English idiomatic "the" fails to lay the stress which the Greek has on the fact that the reapers are such beings as angels, (as contrasted with human workers, Mat_9:37, Mat_9:38) its omission adds a thought which the Greek was probably not intended to convey that the reapers would be only some among the angels.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On vv39, 41 Satan. Br. diabolos, accuser. See note, Mat 16:23; Gen…
devil
Satan. Br. diabolos, accuser. See note, Mat 16:23; Gen 3:1; Rev 20:10. (See Scofield "Rev 20:10").
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angels (See Scofield "Heb 1:4").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v40 Connecting Statement:
Connecting Statement:
Jesus finishes explaining to his disciples the parable of the field with both wheat and weeds.
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Therefore, as the weeds are gathered up and burned with fire
This can be translated in active form. AT: "Therefore, as people gather up weeds and burn them in the fire" (See: Active or Passive)
The Son of Man will send out his angels
Here Jesus is speaking of himself. AT: "I, the Son of Man, will send out my angels" (See: First, Second, or Third Person)
those who commit iniquity
"those who are lawless" or "evil people"
furnace of fire
This is a metaphor for the fires of hell. If the term "furnace" is not known, "oven" can be used. AT: "fiery furnace" (See: Metaphor)
weeping and grinding of teeth
"Grinding of teeth" here is a symbolic act, representing extreme sadness and suffering. See how you translated this in Matthew 8:12. AT: "weeping and showing that they are suffering very much" (See: Symbolic Action)
shine like the sun
If this simile is not understandable in your language, you can use: "be as easy to see as the sun." (See: Simile)
Father
This is an important title for God. (See: Translating Son and Father)
He who has ears
This is a way of referring to everyone there who was hearing what Jesus was saying. See how you translated this in Matthew 11:15. AT: "Whoever can hear me" (See: Idiom)
listen
Here "listen" represents paying attention. See how you translated this in Matthew 11:15. AT: "pay attention to what I am saying" (See: Metonymy)
translationWords
fire
world
Son of Man
angel
kingdom
sin
commit
iniquity
righteous
God the Father
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv40–41 13:40-42 The harvest of judgment, which began with the…
13:40-42 The harvest of judgment, which began with the first coming of the Son of Man (3:12), will be completed when he returns (Rev 14:14-16).
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