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17. τὸ πτύον. ‘Winnowing-fan.’ The Latin vannus, a great shovel with which corn was thrown up against the wind to separate it from the chaff.
ἅλωνα. ‘Threshing-floor.’ The word is the same as that from which our halo is derived, since the threshing-floors of the ancients were circular.
εἰς τὴν ἀποθήκην αὐτοῦ. Compare Mat 13:30, “gather the wheat into my barn.”
τὸ δὲ ἄχυρον. The word includes straw and stubble. We find similar metaphors in Psa 1:4, “the ungodly … are like the chaff;” Mal 4:1, “all that do wickedly shall be stubble;” Jer 15:7, “I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land.” So far as the allusion is to the separation of good from evil elements in the Church we find similar passages in Mat 13:30; 1Jn 2:19, &c. But it may refer also to the destruction of the evil elements in a mixed character, as in Luk 22:31, “Simon … Satan hath desired to have you (ὑμᾶς), that he may sift you as wheat.”
κατακαύσει. He shall burn up.