world” (cf. Matt. 13:49; 24:3; 28:20; Mark 4:19; 10:30; Rom. 12:2; 1 Cor. 2:6; 2 Cor. 4:4; Gal. 1:4; Eph. 2:2; 2 Tim. 4:10; Heb. 11:3). Here in the first instance the field is said to be the cosmos world, while in the second and third instances the harvest is the consummation of the age, and not the end of the material world as the Authorized Version translation implies. In another notable passage—Matthew 24:3—reference is not made to the present age, but to the Jewish age which has yet seven years to run