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LUKE 3:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
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“Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.”
His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire — the threshing-floor image is the agricultural picture of final judgment: grain and chaff separated by the fork, the wheat gathered and the chaff burned. The two outcomes communicate that the coming one arrives not only to save but to judge — the same event produces both results depending on what one is.

Church Fathers on Luke 3:17

It was meet that more deference should be paid to John than to other men, for he lived such as no other man. Wherefore indeed most rightly did they regard him with affection, only they kept not within due bounds; hence it is said, But while the people were expecting whether he were the Christ.

Origen · 3rd century

Now what could be more absurd than that he who was fancied to be in another should not be believed in his own person? He whom they thought to have come by a woman, is not believed to have come by a virgin; while in fact the sign of the Divine coming was placed in tile childbearing of a virgin, not of a woman

Ambrose · 4th century

And hence, John gloried not in the estimation in which all held him, nor in any way seemed to desire the deference of others, but embraced the lowest humility. Hence it follows, John answered.

GREEK EX ·
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