39The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
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So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. …
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-43)In these verses, we have, I. Another reason given why Christ preached by parables, Matt. 13:34 , 35 . All these things he spoke in parables , because the time was not yet come for the more clear and plain discoveries of the mysteries of the kingdom. Christ, to keep the people attending and expecting, preached in parables, and without a parable spake he not unto them ; namely, at this time and in t…
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