MATTHEW 13:28 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?”
He said to them: an enemy has done this. So the servants said to him: then do you want us to go and gather them? The master's identification of an enemy as the source of the weeds is the parable's theological core: the presence of evil alongside good in the world is not the master's failure but the enemy's work. The servants' offer to gather the weeds is the zealous but premature response that the master's next answer will correct.
Church Fathers on Matthew 13:28
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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