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Matthew 13:39

The enemy that sowed them is the devil—emphatically "His enemy" (Matthew 13:25). (See Genesis 3:15; I John 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).

And the reapers are the angels—But whose angels are they? "The Son of man shall send forth His angels" (Matthew 13:41). Compare I Peter 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."



Matthew 13:30-39

Let both grow together—that is, in the visible Church.

until the harvest—till the one have ripened for full salvation, the other for destruction. (See on Matthew 13:39).

and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers—(See on Matthew 13:39).

Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them—"in the fire" (Matthew 13:40).

but gather the wheat into my barn—Christ, as the Judge, will separate the two classes (as in Matthew 25:32). It will be observed that the tares are burned before the wheat is housed; in the exposition of the parable (Matthew 13:41, Matthew 13:43) the same order is observed: and the same in Matthew 25:46 —as if, in some literal sense, "with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked" (Psalms 91:8).

Third and Fourth Parables or Second Pair:

THE MUSTARD SEED and THE LEAVEN (Matthew 13:31-33).

The subject of both these parables, as of the first pair, is the same, but under a slight diversity of aspect, namely

THE GROWTH OF THE KINGDOM FROM THE SMALLEST BEGINNINGS TO ULTIMATE UNIVERSALITY.

The Mustard Seed (Matthew 13:31-32).



Matthew 13:25-39

But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way—(See on Matthew 13:38-39).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Matthew 13:39:

Matthew 13:17
Matthew 13:25-39
Matthew 13:30-39
Galatians 6:7
1 Peter 5:8
Revelation 15:4

 

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