Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Ver. 30. Bind them in bundles, &c.] This shall be the angels' office at the last day, to bundle up swearers with swearers, drunkards with drunkards, &c., that they may suffer together, as they have sinned together, and pledge one another in that cup of fire and brimstone that shall then be poured down their throats, Psalms 11:6. As in the meantime, brimstone is here scattered upon their habitation,Job 18:15, every moment ready to take fire, if God but lighten upon it with the arrows of his indignation, Psalms 18:14 .