Mat_13:39.
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] not found in any of the other Gospels: the close of the (current) age (Mat_13:22), i.e. of the, pre-Messianic epoch; the great catastrophe that is to accompany the second coming, and which is to introduce the Messianic judgment, 4 Esdr. 7:43; Bertholdt, Christol. p. 39; comp. Mat_13:40; Mat_13:49; Mat_24:3; Mat_28:20; Heb_9:26, and see note on Mat_12:32.
The reapers are angels; see Mat_24:31; comp. Joh_15:6.