“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.
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