Matthew:13:36-43

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rwp @Matthew:13:36 @{Explain unto us } (\diasaph son h min \). Also in strkjv @18:31 |. "Make thoroughly clear right now " (aorist tense of urgency ). The disciples waited till Jesus left the crowds and got into the house to ask help on this parable . Jesus had opened up the Parable of the Sower and now they pick out this one , passing by the mustard seed and the leaven . rwp @Matthew:13:38 @{The field is the world } (\ho de agros estin ho kosmos \). The article with both "field " and "world " in Greek means that subject and predicate are coextensive and so interchangeable . It is extremely important to understand that both the good seed and the darnel (tares ) are sown in the world , not in the Kingdom , not in the church . The separation comes at the consummation of the age (\sunteleia ai nos \, 39 |), the harvest time . They all grow together in the field (the world ). rwp @Matthew:13:41 @{Out of his kingdom } (\ek t s basileias autou \). Out from the midst of the kingdom , because in every city the good and the bad are scattered and mixed together . Cf . \ek mesou t n dikai n \ in strkjv @13:49 | "from the midst of the righteous ." What this means is that , just as the wheat and the darnel are mixed together in the field till the separation at harvest , so the evil are mixed with the good in the world (the field ). Jesus does not mean to say that these "stumbling-blocks " (\ta skandala \) are actually in the Kingdom of heaven and really members of the Kingdom . They are simply mixed in the field with the wheat and God leaves them in the world till the separation comes . Their destiny is "the furnace of fire " (\t n kaminon tou puros \). rwp @Matthew:13:43 @{Shine forth } (\eklampsousin \). Shine out as the sun comes from behind a cloud (Vincent ) and drive away the darkness after the separation has come (cf . strkjv @Daniel:12:3 |).

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