MATTHEW 13:30 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.”
Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers: first gather the weeds and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn. The harvest as the time of separation — and the sequence of the separation: weeds first (gathered and burned), wheat second (gathered into the barn). The sequence communicates the priority of judgment before the full reception of the righteous into the kingdom. Matthew 13:40–43 will explain the harvest in terms of the end of the age and the angels as reapers.
Church Fathers on Matthew 13:30
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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