Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Matthew 13:49
49. So shall it be at the end of the world, c.—(See on Matthew 13:1). We have said that each of these two parables holds forth the same truth under a slight diversity of aspect. What is that diversity? First, the bad, in the former parable, are represented as vile seed sown among the wheat by the enemy of souls in the latter, as foul fish drawn forth out of the great sea of human beings by the Gospel net itself. Both are important truths—that the Gospel draws within its pale, and into the... read more
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Matthew 13:48
48. Which, when it was full, they drew to shore—for the separation will not be made till the number of the elect is accomplished. and sat down—expressing the deliberateness with which the judicial separation will at length be made. and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away—literally, "the rotten," but here meaning, "the foul" or "worthless" fish: corresponding to the "tares" of the other parable. read more