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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
The field is the world. Seeing it is He that sows His own field, it is plain that this present world is His. It follows, The good seed are the children of the kingdom.
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
The tares the Lord expounds to mean, not as Manichæus interprets, certain spurious parts inserted among the true Scriptures, but all the children of the Evil one, that is, the imitators of the fraud of the Devil. As it follows, The tares are the children of the evil one, by whom He would have us understand all the wicked and impious.
Thomas Aquinas
The field is the world, which he himself created; hence above he said, in his field; John 1:11: he came unto his own, etc. Likewise ibid.: the world was made by him. And the good seed, these are the children of the kingdom, from whom others were propagated, who were good sons; and if sons, heirs also, Rom 8:17. Then he explains what pertains to the oversowing, and says what the seed is. And the weeds are the children of the wicked one; Isa 1:4: woe to the sinful nation, a seed of evildoers, wicked children.
Remigius of Rheims
That is, the saints, and elect men, who are counted as sons.
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