Revelation 14:15

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And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in your sickle, and reap: for the time has come for you to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.

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Bede

AD 735

reap: Behold, He says, "Through iniquity abounding, the love of many has waxed cold," and through the burning heat of evils falling upon it, the harvest of the earth has now almost ceased to be green. So, then, for the elect's sake, the days are shortened, in order that grains already ripe may not fall off. And do thou commit the tares and the chaff to the flames, but the heavenly fruit to the garners of bliss. <a

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Bede

AD 735

angel: The angels, of whom we read in the Gospel as "the reapers of the earth," are all "sent forth to minister for those who have the inheritance of salvation," and they take account of the several merits of the Church, and report them daily to the Lord.

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Victorinus of Pettau

AD 303

he signifies it of the nations that should perish on the advent of the Lord. And indeed in many forms he shows this same thing, as if to the dry harvest, and the seed for the coming of the Lord, and the consummation of the world, and the kingdom of Christ, and the future appearance of the kingdom of the blessed.

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