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Mat_13:40. Καἰεται ] not κατακαίεται , but are set on fire. No doubt the tares are consumed by fire (Mat_13:30); still the point of the comparison does not lie in their being consumed, but in the fact of their being set on fire,—a fact which is intended to illustrate the everlasting punishment now beginning to overtake the wicked in Gehenna. Joh_15:6; Mat_25:46.
The wicked (the σκάνδαλα , Mat_13:41; the σαπρά , Mat_13:47) are connected with the church as a mere outward institution, but do not belong to the number of its living members (to the body of Christ). Comp. Apol. Conf. A. p. 147 f.; Thomasius, Chr. Pers. u. Werk, III. 2, p. 370.