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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Matthew 13:48

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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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.
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