Teks -- Matthew 13:48 (NET)

13:48 When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away.

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Robertson: Mat 13:48 - Vessels

Vessels ( aggē ).

Here only in the N.T. In Mat 25:4 we have aggeia .

Vincent: Mat 13:48 - Sat down

Sat down

Implying deliberation in the assortment.

JFB: Mat 13:48 - Which, when it was full, they drew to shore

For the separation will not be made till the number of the elect is accomplished.

JFB: Mat 13:48 - and sat down

Expressing the deliberateness with which the judicial separation will at length be made.

JFB: Mat 13:48 - 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.

TSK: Mat 13:48 - and gathered

and gathered : Mat 13:30,Mat 13:40-43, Mat 3:12

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Poole: Mat 13:47-50 - Again, the kingdom of heaven // the word of the kingdom // a net // into the sea

Ver. 47-50. The scope of this parable is much the same with that of the tares, to teach us, that while the church is in this world there will be in it a mixture of good and bad, a perfect separation of which one from another is not to be expected until the day of judgment.

Again, the kingdom of heaven This term signifieth the whole dispensation and administration of the gospel, both the grace dispensed in it, and the means of that grace which is administered under it. I should here interpret it of the preaching of the gospel, which is called

the word of the kingdom being the means by which men are gathered in both to the church visible and invisible. This our Lord here compares to

a net , thrown

into the sea of the world, and gathering in of every kind, bringing in many to an outward profession, all of which shall not come to the kingdom of glory, nor are indeed true members of Christ; not members of the church invisible, though they be members of the church visible. When the end of the world shall come, and Christ shall have accomplished his design in the world, then a day of judgment shall come, and there shall be a perfect separation between such as received the gospel in truth, and in the love of it, and others: the former shall be taken to heaven, and the latter thrown into hell; which he expresses by the like phrases which he had before used in the parable of the tares, which need no further explication.

Gill: Mat 13:48 - Which when, it was full // They drew to the shore // and sat down // and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away

Which when, it was full,.... As the Gospel, and the Gospel church state may be said to be, when all the ends of the preaching of the word are answered; when all are called by the one, and into the other, that were designed to be called; when the fulness of the Gentiles shall be brought in, and all Israel shall be saved,

They drew to the shore; which will be done, when the end of the world comes; then will an end be put to the Gospel ministry, the net will be drawn to shore; the preaching of the Gospel will cease, and no more use be made of it:

and sat down; the ministers of the word having done their work, enter into the joy of their Lord, and rest from their labours:

and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away; as fishermen used to do; though this last office seems, by the application of the parable, to be what will be performed by angels; who, as many as they find to have a good work of grace wrought and finished in their souls, they will gather into Christ's barn, into the everlasting habitations, the mansions in Christ's Father's house, he is gone to prepare: but as for the bad, who shall appear to be destitute of the grace of God, and righteousness of Christ, notwithstanding their profession of religion, they shall be rejected, as good for nothing, and shall be cast into the lake which burns with fire and brimstone.