And the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. The identification of the enemy as the devil connects the parable to the story of the enemy's counter-sowing in the world. The end of the age harvest and the angel-reapers set the context: the separation of good from evil is an eschatological event, not a present-age human task.

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