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Joe_3:13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness [is] great.
Ver. 13. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.] It even hangs for mowing, as we say: the enemies are ready ripe for ruin; down with them, therefore, that they may not shed in the field and seed again; let this valley of decision be unto them a valley of excision; let it be as a winepress to those bunches and branches of the grapes lopped off the vine. Lacus iste locus caedis, see Rev_14:18-19 Mat_13:39. There is a stint set to men’s sins, Gen_15:16 Zec_5:8; Zec_5:11 Mat_23:32. {See Trapp on "Mat_23:22"} What more beautiful to behold than a field for harvest, than a vineyard before the vintage? and yet how sudden an alteration, when workmen once take in hand!
For the wickedness is great] Here is that plainly that before was expressed parabolically. The Scripture often expounds itself in the same text; and is everywhere its own best interpreter.