MATTHEW 13:25 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.”
But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. The enemy's nighttime counter-sowing — planting weeds among the good grain — is the activity of the devil (verse 39). The enemy who sows weeds in the man's field is the one who introduced the children of the evil one into the world alongside the children of the kingdom. The sleeping servants communicate the impossibility of preventing the enemy's work during the age before the harvest.
Church Fathers on Matthew 13:25
In the foregoing parable the Lord spoke to such as do not receive the word of God; here of those who receive a corrupting seed. This is the contrivance of the Devil, ever to mix error with truth.
He set forth also this other parable, as it were a rich householder refreshing his guests with various meats, that each one according to the nature of his stomach might find some food adapted to him. He said not 'a second parable,' but 'another;' for had He said 'a second,' we could not have looked for a third; but another prepares us for many more.
Here He calls the Son of God Himself the kingdom of heaven; for He saith, 'The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that sowed good seed in his field.'
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