Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Matthew 3:12
Fan [is] in his hand. Rather the winnowing shovel, by which the
wheat and chaff were tossed together into the air, so that the wind
would blow the chaff away. In Palestine grain was threshed on an
outdoor threshing floor, either by hand or the treading of cattle, and
winnowed by casting it up to the wind.
Gather his wheat into the garner. Granary, or grain depository.
Unquenchable fire. A reference is here made to the practice of
burning the chaff under process of winnowing. The wheat is the
righteous, the chaff is the wicked, and Christ is the winnower; the
granary is heaven, the unquenchable fire is hell.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 3:11
Matthew 3:12
Luke 3:3
Acts 13:24-25
Hebrews 6:2
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