Matthew 13:39 (WEB)
The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
Fathers and councils · 35
Tertullian
“For why should God, the founder of the universe, the Governor of the whole world, the Fashioner of humanity, the Sower of universal nations be believed to have given a law through Moses to one people, and not be said to have assigned it to all nations?” — editor's note: Comp. Jer. xxxi. 27 (in LXX. it is xxxviii. 27); Hos. ii. 23; Zech. x. 9; Matt. xiii. 31–43.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…labourers of Thy goodness into Thy harvest, in the sowing of which others have laboured, sending also into another field, whose harvest shall be in the end.” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 39.
Read the whole comment“And, “the reapers are the angels,” the Lord saith.” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 39.
Read the whole comment“And He spake many things unto them in parables, saying;” and so on, down to the words, “Therefore every scribe which is instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 1–52.
Read the whole comment“The reapers will come, and who the reapers are He hath explained, “And the reapers are the angels.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 39.
Read the whole comment“…drawn from the sown wheat and the tares sown among them, and gave this explanation of it to His disciples: “He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man,” etc. Here, indeed, He did not name the judgment or the day of judgment, but indicated it much more clearly by describing the circumstances, and foretold that…” — editor's note: Augustin quotes the whole passage, Matt. xiii. 37–43.
Read the whole comment“The Son of man shall send His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all offenses.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 39-41.
Read the whole comment““The reapers,” saith He, “are the angels.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 39.
Read the whole comment“Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 24, 38–43.
Read the whole comment“…for the harvest is the end of the world, when the reapers, that is to say, the angels, shall come and gather out of His kingdom everything that offendeth; which certainly would not be done, were it not that His kingdom is here.” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 38–41.
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John Chrysostom
“Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 37–43. [The long citation presents few textual variations of any kind, none that affect the sense.—R.]
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.13On Virginity
“…man who has thus died once for all to sin lives for the future to God; he brings forth no more fruit unto death; and having so far as in him lies made an end of this life within him according to the flesh, he awaits thenceforth the expected blessing of the manifestation of the great God, refraining from putting any…” — editor's note: συντέλειαν. Cf. S. Matt. xiii. 39; and Heb. ix. 15.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
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 aught, and therefore He sends…
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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.
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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,…
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Before, though desirous to learn, they had feared to ask; but now they ask freely and confidently because they had heard, “To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of heaven;” and therefore they ask when…
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The Lord styles Himself the Son of Man, that in that title He might set an example of humility; or perhaps because it was to come to pass that certain heretics would deny Him to be really man; or that through belief…
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“The field is the world.” Seeing it is He that sows His own field, it is plain that this present world is His. It follows, “The good seed are the children of the kingdom.”
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That is, the saints, and elect men, who are counted as sons.
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The tares the Lord expounds to mean, not as Manichaeus interprets, certain spurious parts inserted among the true Scriptures, but all the children of the Evil one, that is, the imitators of the fraud of the Devil. As…
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For all weeds among corn are called tares.
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It follows, “The enemy who sowed this is the Devil.”
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For this is part of the wiles of the Devil, to be ever mixing up truth with error. “The harvest is the end of the world.” In another place He says, speaking of the Samaritans, “Lift up your eyes, and consider the…
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By the harvest is denoted the day of judgment, in which the good are to be separated from the evil; which will be done by the ministry of Angels, as it is said below, that the Son of Man shall come to judgment with…
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Out of that kingdom in which are no offences? The kingdom then is His kingdom which is here, namely, the Church.
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That the tares are first separated, signifies that by tribulation the wicked shall be separated from the righteous; and this is understood to be performed by good Angels, because the good can discharge duties of…
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Or we may understand it of the kingdom of the heavenly Church; and then there will be held out here a two-fold punishment; first that they fall from glory as that is said, “And they shall gather out of his kingdom…
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The offences are to be referred to the tares.
Read the whole comment - Glossa OrdinariaCatena Aurea on Matthew
“The offences”, and, “them that do iniquity,” are to be distinguished as heretics and schismatics; the “offences” referring to heretics; while by “them that do iniquity” are to be understood schismatics. Otherwise;…
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Observe, He says, “Those that do iniquity,” not, those who have done; because not they who have turned to penitence, but they only that abide in their sins are to be delivered to eternal torments.
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Behold the unspeakable love of God towards men! He is ready to shew mercy, slow to punish; when He sows, He sows Himself; when He punishes, He punishes by others, sending His Angels to that. It follows, “There shall…
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In these words is shewn the reality of the resurrection of the body; and further, the twofold pains of hell, extreme heat, and extreme cold. And as the offences are referred to the tares, so the righteous are…
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Not that they shall not shine with higher brightness, but because we know no degree of brightness that surpasses that of the sun, therefore He uses an example adapted to our understanding.
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That He says, “Then shall they shine,” implies that they now shine for an example to others, but they shall then shine as the sun to the praise of God. “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.”
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That is, Let him understand who has understanding, because all these things are to be understood mystically, and not literally.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Matthew 13:36–43 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.13.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.13.
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Matthew 13:36–43 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.13.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.13.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.13.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.13.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.13.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.13.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.13.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.13.