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MATTHEW 13:41 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 13:40Matt 13:42
“The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;”
The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers. The Son of Man's kingdom is the present age's mixed field; the angels are the reapers who will gather the causes of sin and the law-breakers out of it at the end. The gathering out communicates the separation: the kingdom that currently contains both the children of the kingdom and the children of the evil one will be purified at the harvest.

Church Fathers on Matthew 13:41

The Lord had spoken to the multitude in parables, that He might induce them to ask Him of their meaning; yet, though He had spoken so many things in parables, no man had yet asked Him aug ht, and therefore He sends them away; 'Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house.' None of the Scribes followed Him here, from is which it is clear that they followed Him for no other purpose than that they might catch Him in His discourse.

Chrysostom · 4th century

The Lord sends away the multitude, and enters the house that His disciples might come to Him and ask Him privately of those things which the people neither deserved to hear, nor were able.

Jerome · 4th century

Figuratively; Having sent away the multitude of unquiet Jews, He enters the Church of the Gentiles, and there expounds to believers heavenly sacraments, whence it follows, 'And his disciples came to him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.'

Rabanus Maurus · 9th century
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