So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,

Thus shall it be in the completion of the age: the angels shall go forth and sever the wicked from the midst of the just,

so shall it be in the full end of the age, the messengers shall come forth and separate the evil out of the midst of the righteous,

So will it be at the Close of the Age. The angels will go forth and separate the wicked from among the righteous,

So will it be in the end of the world: the angels will come and take out the bad from the good,

So shall it be at the consummation of the age. The Angels shall go forth and separate the bad from the midst of the just.

So shall it be at the end of the world,.... As the fisherman, when he has drawn his net to shore, picks out the good fish, and puts them into proper vessels, and casts the dead, putrid, and useless fish away; so, at the close of time, in the last day,
the angels shall come forth out of heaven, from the presence of God and Christ, and by his orders, as the judge of all the earth,
and sever the wicked from the just; with whom they have had not only civil conversation, but have been joined in a Gospel church state; but now these ungodly shall not stand in judgment with them; nor these sinners, these hypocrites, in the congregation of the righteous: the one will be set at Christ's right hand, the other at his left; the one will go into life eternal, and the other into everlasting punishment; and their separation from one another will be for ever.

So shall it be at the end of the world, &c.--(See on Matthew 13:42). We have said that each of these two parables holds forth the same truth under a slight diversity of aspect. What is that diversity? First, the bad, in the former parable, are represented as vile seed sown among the wheat by the enemy of souls; in the latter, as foul fish drawn forth out of the great sea of human beings by the Gospel net itself. Both are important truths--that the Gospel draws within its pale, and into the communion of the visible Church, multitudes who are Christians only in name; and that the injury thus done to the Church on earth is to be traced to the wicked one. But further, while the former parable gives chief prominence to the present mixture of good and bad, in the latter, the prominence is given to the future separation of the two classes.

So shall it be at the end of the world. Then, not men, but the angels, under the direction of the Son of Man, shall sever the wicked from the just.