49So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
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And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. …
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. …
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 44-52)We have four short parables in these verses. I. That of the treasure hid in the field . Hitherto he had compared the kingdom of heaven to small things, because its beginning was small; but, lest any should thence take occasion to think meanly of it, in this parable and the next he represents it as of great value in itself, and of great advantage to those who embrace it, and are willing to come up…
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