SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:27
Y llegndose los siervos del padre de la familia, le dijeron: Seor, ¿no sembraste buena simiente en tu campo? ¿De dnde, pues, tiene cizaa?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 13:27
Verse 27. So the servants-said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow] A faithful and vigilant minister of Christ fails not to discover the evil, to lament it, and to address himself to God by prayer, in order to find out the cause of it, and to receive from him proper information how to behave on the occasion.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 27. So the servants of the householder came , etc.] Christ is the householder; the house of which he is master is the church, called the household of God, the household of faith, the family in heaven, and in earth; in which house he bears and sustains many relations, as those of a son, a priest, a master, or governor. By the servants that came to him, are meant, not civil magistrates, who have nothing to do in the affairs of churches; nor the angels, though these are ministering servants to Christ, and will be employed by him, in the close of time, to gather up the tares, bind them in bundles, and cast them into the fire; but the ministers of the Gospel, the servants of Christ, and of the most high God, who are made use of in planting, and sowing, and weeding his field, the church: these observing the tares, and fearing the danger the wheat was in by them, as well as troubled and surprised at the appearance and growth of them, came to him, and spread the case before him in prayer; and said unto him, Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? Their manner of address, calling him Sir, or Lord, is expressive of their reverence of him, and obedience to him; and which is said, not in word only, but in the sincerity of their hearts, and under the influence of the Spirit of God. They ascribe the field, the church, the good seed, converts that sprung up in it, and the sowing, or making of them such, all to Christ, and not any of this kind, or any part of it to themselves; though they were employed by him in tilling this field, in sowing spiritual things to the saints, and were useful to them in their profession of religion. Moreover, they intimate, that nothing but good could come from Christ; no bad seed, no tares could be of his sowing: and declare their ignorance of the rise of them; which ignorance was owing to their being asleep, when the enemy sowed them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 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, and the separation between them in the other world. So prone is fallen man to sin, that if the enemy sow the tares, he may go his way, they wil spring up, and do hurt; whereas, when good seed is sown, it must be tended, watered, and fenced. The servants complained to their master Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? No doubt he did whatever is amiss in the church, we are sure it is not from Christ Though gross transgressors, and such as openly oppose the gospel, ough to be separated from the society of the faithful, yet no human skil can make an exact separation. Those who oppose must not be cut off, but instructed, and that with meekness. And though good and bad ar together in this world, yet at the great day they shall be parted; the the righteous and the wicked shall be plainly known; here sometimes it is hard to distinguish between them. Let us, knowing the terrors of the Lord, not do iniquity. At death, believers shall shine forth to themselves; at the great day they shall shine forth before all the world. They shall shine by reflection, with light borrowed from the Fountain of light. Their sanctification will be made perfect, and their justification published. May we be found of that happy number.
Greek Textus Receptus
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