bad fish (Matt. 13:47–50).7 On the other hand the citizens of the kingdom of God are not perfected till they shall “see him as he is” (1 John 3:2) and therefore the parable of the leaven is spoken of both kingdoms (Matt. 13:33; Luke 13:20, 21).8 There can be neither tares nor bad fish in the kingdom of God, while both are in the kingdom of heaven in its present, or mystery, form. No other of the many confusions of things that differ has wrought so disastrously in Biblical interpretation as making
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