So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous. The end-of-age application confirms the eschatological reading of both the net parable and the weeds parable: the present age is the time of the net's gathering; the end is the time of separation. The angels as the agents of separation are the same in both parables (verses 41 and 49).

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