Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 13:50

50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire, there shall be wailing, and gnashing of teeth.

The Scope of this Parab[illegible: 1 letter]e is much the same, with that of the Tares, to teach us that whil[illegible: 1 letter]t the Church is in this World, there will be in it, a mixture of good, and bad, a perfect Separation of which one from another, is not to be expected until the Day of Judgment. Again the Kingdom of Heaven. This term signi[illegible: 1 letter]ieth the whole Dispensation, and Administration of the Gospel, both the Grace Dispensed in it, and the means of that Grace, which is admini[illegible: 2 letters]red under it. I should here interpret it of the Preaching of the Gospel, which is called, the Word of the Kingdom ▪ being the means by which Men are gathered in, both to the Church visible, and invi[illegible: 1 letter]ible. This our Lord here compareth to a Net, thrown into the Sea of the World, and gathering in of every kind, bringing in many to an outward Profe[illegible: 1 letter]sion, all of which shall not come to the Kingdom of Glory, nor are indeed true Members of Chri[illegible: 1 letter]t, not Members of the Church invisible, tho they be Members of the Church visible. When the end of the World shall come, and Christ shall have accomplished his Design in▪ the World, then a Day of Judgment shall come, and there shall be a perfect Separation betwixt such as received the Gospel in Truth, and in the Love of it and others, the former shall be taken to Heaven, and the latter thrown into Hell; which he expresseth by the like Phrases, which he had before used in the Parable of the Tares, which need no further Explication.

Marginal references: Verse 42.