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 came and sowed tares also amidst the wheat. ‘Tares,' ‘darnel' or bastard wheat, looking like wheat, but with a fruit which is injurious in its effects. An act of malice not unexampled.

Went away. The hostile sowing required no further care; in the beginnings of evil Satan conceals himself.

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