tares

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Yes, the wheat and the tares is a parable for yesterday and today.

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  • For that Power which daily makes me understand the value of the little wheat amid the field of tares, and shows me how the kingdom of heaven is sown in the earth like a grain of mustard-seed, is good to me, and bids me call unhappiness happy TO March , 1842.—My inward life has been more rich and deep and of more calm and musical flow than ever before. —  Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. I
  • Yes, the wheat and the tares is a parable for yesterday and today. —  NextReformation
  • 24:3). "The field is the world (men); the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world (age); and the reapers are the angels" (Matt. —  Satan
  • The parable of the tares was also cited, as illustrating the same position. —  American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States
  • For even as the tares are gathered, and brent in the fire: so shall it be in the end of this world. —  The first New Testament printed in English
 

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