“Inimicus autem, qui seminavit ea, est diabolus. Messis vero, consummatio sæculi est. Messores autem, angeli sunt.”
“The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.”
“and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.”
“The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.”
“and the enemy that sowed them is the devil: and the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels.”
(6.) The harvest is the end of the world, v. 39. This world will have an end; though it continue long, it will not continue always; time will shortly be swallowed up in eternity. At the end of the world, there will be a great harvest-day, a day of judgment; at harvest all is ripe and ready to be cut down: both good and bad are ripe at the great-day, Rev 6 11. It is the harvest of the earth, Rev 14 15. At harvest the reapers cut down all before them; not a field, not a corner, is left behind; so at the great day all must be judged (Rev 20 12, 13); God has set a harvest (Hos 6 11), and it shall not fail, Gen 8 22. At harvest every man reaps as he sowed; every man's ground, and seed, and skill, and industry, will be manifested: see Gal 6 7, 8. Then they who sowed precious seed, will come again with rejoicing (Ps 126 5, 6), with the joy of harvest (Isa 9 3); when the sluggard, who would not plough by reason of cold, shall beg, and have nothing (Prov 20 4); shall cry, Lord, Lord, but in vain; when the harvest of those who sowed to the flesh, shall be a day of grief, and of desperate sorrow, Isa 17 11.