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Verse Matthew 13:25. _BUT WHILE MEN SLEPT_] When the professors were
lukewarm, and the pastors indolent, _his enemy came and sowed_
_tares_, ζιζανια _degenerate_, or _bastard wheat_. The
righteous an...
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THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKENED ... - That is, the “gospel
resembles.” The kingdom of heaven (see the notes at Matthew 3:2)
means here the effect of the gospel by its being preached. The meaning
of t...
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II. THE REJECTED KINGDOM AND THE REJECTED KING. CHAPTER S 13-28.
1. The King at the Seaside.
The Mysteries of the Kingdom.
CHAPTER 13
1. The King at the Seaside. (Matthew 13:1 .) 2. The Parable of...
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MATTHEW 13:24; MATTHEW 13:36. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES. Mt. only. The
parable is a substitute for rather than an adaptation of Mark 4:26 *.
We need not deny its genuineness on the plea that the standpo...
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BUT WHILE MEN SLEPT.
During sleep is the time of tare-sowing. It is when men sleep that
they are most likely to inhale malarious poisons. It is when the
church member sleeps that the enemy is wont to...
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,36-43 Jesus put forward another parable. "The Kingdom of Heaven, he
said to them, "is like what happened when a man sowed good seed in his
field. When men slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel in th...
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MANY THINGS IN PARABLES (Matthew 13:1-58)
Matthew 13:1-58 is a very important chapter in the pattern of the
gospel.
(i) It shows a definite turning-point in the ministry of Jesus. At the
beginning of...
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SLEPT. App-171.
SOWED. sowed upon [and therefore among]. Greek. _epispeiro =_ sowed.
Occurs only here. All the texts read "sowed over".
TARES. Greek. _zizania_ (Occurs only in this chapter, verses: M...
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The Parable of the Tares. Confined to St Matthew
25. _while men slept_ i. e. during the night. The expression is not
introduced into the Lord's explanation of the parable.
_sowed tares_ Travellers m...
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THE PARABLE OF THE TARES
Confined to St Matthew....
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ἘΠΈΣΠΕΙΡΕΝ for ἔσπειρεν. The simple verb has large
MS. support, but there would be great probability of losing the
preposition in transcribing, and very little of its insertion if not
in original text...
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Ver 24. Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, "The kingdom
of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25. But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among t...
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_THE PARABLE OF THE WHEAT AND TARES MATTHEW 13:24-43_ : A man sowed
good seed in his field. An enemy sowed tares among the wheat. The
servants were not allowed to root up the tares least, by accident...
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ΚΑΘΕΎΔΕΙΝ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΚΆΘΕΎΔΩ (G2518)
спать. Используется с _dat._ и _предл._ ΈΝ
(G1722), выражает одновременность
действия ("в то время как"),
ΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ, _см._ Matt...
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THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKENED, &C.— _The kingdom of heaven may be
compared to,_ &c. or literally, _is like to:_ It is a phrase often
used by our Lord, to signify that the following parable, in its...
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B. THE PROBLEM OF EVIL IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD: THE TRIALS OF TRUTH
1. THE PARABLE OF THE WEEDS
TEXT: 13:24-30, 36-43
24 Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven
is likened unto...
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But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat,
and went his way.
BUT WHILE MEN SLEPT, HIS ENEMY CAME AND SOWED TARES AMONG THE WHEAT,
AND WENT HIS WAY. "The tares are the chil...
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14 Compare Isa_6:9-10, Septuagint. See Joh_12:37-40; Act_28:25-27;
Rom_11:7-10; 2Co_3:14-16.
16-17 Compare Luk_10:23-24. See Mat_16:17.
18-23 Compare Mar_4:14-20; Luk_8:11-15.
19 Lack of understandi...
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13:25 darnel (a-10) A useless weed resembling wheat....
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A DAY OF PARABLES
1-3a. Teaching by parables begun (Mark 4:1; Luke 8:4). This chapter
introduces a new type of teaching, that by parables. St. Matthew gives
us a group of seven, the first four of whic...
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PARABLE OF THE TARES (peculiar to St. Matthew). One of the greatest,
most characteristic, and most fruitful of the parables. In it Christ
looked from the present into the distant future. He foresaw th...
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WHILE MEN SLEPT] This detail may indicate the subtlety of the evil one
in introducing evil into the Church in ways that cannot be traced. HIS
ENEMY] By no more striking expression could the greatness...
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MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 13
STORIES ABOUT WHERE GOD RULES 13:1-52
Matthew wrote down a lot of the things that Jesus taught. This
chapter is the third section...
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HIS ENEMY CAME AND SOWED TARES. — The act described was then — and
still is — a common form of Eastern malice or revenge. It easily
escaped detection. It inflicted both loss and trouble. The “enemy”
h...
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CHAPTER 11
The Parables of the Kingdom - Matthew 13:1
"THE same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side."
We can well imagine that, after such a series of discouragements and
mortifi...
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ἐν τῳ καθεύδειν = during the night. α. ὁ
ἐχθρὸς, his enemy. Weiss (Matt.-Evang., 347) thinks this
feature no part of the original parable, but introduced to correspond
with the interpretation (Matthew...
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_The Tares_. This parable has some elements in common with that in
Mark 4:26-29, whence the notion of many critics that one of the two
has been formed from the other. As to which is the original, opin...
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OTHER PARABLES OF THE KINGDOM
Matthew 13:24-33
The tare was a species of rye grass, which in its earlier stages,
closely resembled wheat. In this world, and in the Church, professors
are closely ming...
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This chapter contains the seven parables of the Kingdom. The reason
for the parabolic teaching of Christ is set forth here. This first
parable was spoken to the multitudes (verses Mat 13:2-3). Its
exp...
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_Were asleep. When the superiors or pastors of the Church were lulled
asleep or negligent, or, when the apostles were dead, as St. Augustine
expounds it, the devil spread the tares or error and sin am...
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STORM ON THE GALILEAN SEA
Matthew 13:18-27; Mark 4:35-41; & Luke 8:22-25; Luke 9:57-62. Mark:
they will begin to say
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"Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven
is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: (25) But
while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the whea...
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Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a
striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has
been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
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The Lord was no longer seeking fruit in His vine. It had been
requisite according to God's relations with Israel that He should seek
this fruit; but His true service, He well knew, was to bring that
w...
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BUT WHILE MEN SLEPT,.... Good men, ministers, and churches; whose case
this sometimes is to be asleep in a spiritual sense: and which
sleepiness lies in a non-exercise of grace; in a sluggishness to a...
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But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat,
and went his way.
Ver. 25. _But while men slept_] Christ, the Lord of the husbandry,
neither slumbereth nor sleepeth; but the labo...
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_Another parable put he forth unto them_ In which he further explains
the case of unfruitful hearers, and shows that persons of various
characters would profess to receive the gospel, and be accounted...
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TARES; not our American tares, but a species of darnel bearing
poisonous seeds, and having, before it comes to a head, a near
resemblance to the stalks of wheat and barley. In places where Christ,
by...
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BUT WHILE MEN SLEPT, HIS ENEMY CAME AND SOWED TARES AMONG THE WHEAT
AND WENT HIS WAY.
An important point: The parable is set forth, is presented, as
spiritual food, for instruction of the soul. The ki...
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THE PARABLE OF THE TARES...
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This chapter begins a new division of the book. Israel is looked at as
set aside because of unbelief: the Lord went out of the house
(typically Israel's house), and set by the seaside. The sea is typi...
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24-30, 36-43 This parable represents the present and future state of
the gospel church; Christ's care of it, the devil's enmity against it,
the mixture there is in it of good and bad in this world, a...
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SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 13:33"....
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V
For as the good olive, if neglected for a certain time, if left to
grow wild and to run to i wood, does itself become a wild olive; or
again, if the wild olive be care...
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THE EIGHT PARABLES OF THE KINGLY RULE OF HEAVEN (13:1-53).
Having made clear that the Kingly Rule of Heaven is advancing
forcefully (Matthew 11:12) and that through Jesus' activities as the
Servant of...
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‘He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingly Rule of
Heaven has become like to a situation where a man sowed good seed in
his field, but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares
(da...
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THE PARABLE OF THE TARES/BEARDED DARNEL (13:24-30).
In this parable the sower sows good seed in a field, but by night his
enemy sows bad seed. However, when asked if the bad seed should be
removed th...
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THREE FURTHER PARABLES OF THE KINGLY RULE OF HEAVEN (13:24-33).
The parable of the Sower having been explained, We now have three
further parables introduced, the parable of the tares (or bearded
darn...
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THE THREE OTHER PARABLES SPOKEN in public (Matthew 13:24-33), with the
interpretation of the parable of the tares in private (Matthew
13:36-43). The Evangelist inserts, as is his habit, a prophecy
ful...
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE. The Evangelist has just represented our Lord in
opposition to the Pharisees. (A few events probably intervened; see
Luke 11-13.) Thus His claims as the Messiah came out more fully....
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Matthew 13:25. BUT WHILE MEN SLEPT, i.e., ‘at night,' the opportune
time for such an act of malice. No censure of the servants is
expressed; though their natural weakness may be implied.
HIS enemy c...
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WHILE MEN SLEPT
(εν τω καθευδειν τους ανθρωπους). Same use
of the articular present infinitive with εν and the accusative as in
Matthew 13:4.SOWED TARES ALSO
(επεσπειρεν τα ζιζανια). Literally "so...
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Matthew 13:3
The Parables of the Kingdom.
I. Taking these seven parables all together, notice, first, the fact
that our Lord, in describing the kingdom of heaven, did deliberately
use many parables,...
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Matthew 13:24
I. It was "while men slept" that the enemy sowed his tares among the
wheat. The phrase is equivalent to "at night," and must not be further
urged. This enemy seized his opportunity when...
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Matthew 13:25
In the text, three things are hinted at by Christ with respect to the
presence of evil among the good.
I. Here, first, is the secrecy, the undiscernibleness of its
beginnings "while men...
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Matthew 13:24. _Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The
kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his
field:_
Jesus never sowed any other kind of seed. The truth wh...
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Matthew 13:24. _Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The
kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his
field:_
He knew that it was good. It had been tested: it was u...
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CONTENTS: Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. The sower, tares and
wheat, grain of mustard seed, leaven, hid treasure, pearl, drag net.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Satan, Isaiah.
CONCLUSION: The pr...
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Matthew 13:2. _He went into a ship._ A small vessel or boat, probably
belonging to one of the disciples, several of whom were fishermen.
Matthew 13:3. _He spake many things to them in parables._ On th...
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ONE NIGHT. Many people hide their actions under the cover of night. AN
ENEMY. This enemy sowed weed seed in the field of wheat, with the idea
of causing harm to the man who sowed the good seed. The we...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 13:1 The Messianic Kingdom Revealed in
Parables. This is the third of Jesus’ five major teachings (see
Introduction: Key Themes). It is a collection of parables....
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 13:25 These WEEDS are probably darnel, a
weedy rye grass with poisonous black seeds. Darnel resembles wheat in
its early growth but is easily distinguished from it when full gr...
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CHAPTER 13
At that time, &c. Syriac, _by the sea shore_ : When Christ, after His
manner, had preached in the house, which He had hired for His dwelling
in Capernaum, as I have said on c. iv. 13,...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Matthew 13:24_
The seeds of error.—The explanation of the last parable is, in part,
the explanation of this. It teaches us, _e.g_. what is meant in this
parable by...
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EXPOSITION
A few remarks by way of introduction to the characteristic portion of
this chapter (Matthew 13:1).
(1) We have here a collection of the Lord's parables, all spoken, as
it would appear, at...
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Now as we enter into the thirteenth chapter, we come into the area of
the parables that deal with the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.
And in these we have more or less a key to all parables.
And y...
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1 Peter 5:8; 2 Corinthians 11:13; 2 Peter 2:1; 2 Timothy 4:3; Ac
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Sowed [ε π ε σ π ε ι ρ ε ν]. The preposition ejpi, upon,
indicates sowing over what was previously sown. Rev., "sowed also....
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But while men slept — They ought to have watched: the Lord of the
field sleepeth not. His enemy came and sowed darnel — This is very
like wheat, and commonly grows among wheat rather than among other...