Biblical Types, Symbols & Patterns
Harvest
Claim-level biblical evidence review with contextual controls, canonical relationships, and preserved interpretive history.
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Jesus explicitly interprets the harvest in the parable of the weeds as the end of the age.
Jesus explicitly interprets the harvest in the parable of the weeds as the end of the age.
Context control: The interpretation is explicit for Matthew 13; harvest has other literal and figurative uses elsewhere.
Jesus explicitly interprets the harvest in the parable of the weeds as the end of the age.
Grade 1: Explicit biblical interpretationScope: The interpretation is explicit for Matthew 13; harvest has other literal and figurative uses elsewhere.
Residual uncertainty: Full legacy wording remains subject to TSP-S3 unless the S2 statement exactly exhausts it.
Scripture
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: S2 high-certainty anchor loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S2 high-certainty anchor corpus, 2026-09-20
Mission and gathering metaphor
Jesus uses harvest language for people ready to be gathered through kingdom proclamation and disciples’ labor.
Context control: This mission/gathering use is not identical with every literal or eschatological harvest passage.
Jesus recurrently uses harvest language as a metaphor for gathering people through kingdom mission, supporting the legacy gathering/reaping association in those contexts.
Grade 4: Recurrent canonical motif or strong thematic patternScope: This mission/gathering use is not identical with every literal or eschatological harvest passage.
Residual uncertainty: No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.
Scripture
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1
- BibleHub lexical summary — Greek therismos: harvest / reaping — Accessed/verified 2026-09-20
End-age gathering and separation
In the weeds parable Jesus explicitly identifies harvest with the end of the age and interprets the gathering as a separation of the righteous and lawbreakers to distinct destinies.
Context control: This explicit interpretation governs Matthew 13; it does not make every harvest mention an end-time symbol.
In Matthew 13 the interpreted harvest scene gathers both wheat and weeds and separates the righteous from lawbreakers at the end of the age, directly supporting the legacy righteous/wicked gathering association in that parable.
Grade 1: Explicit biblical interpretationScope: This explicit interpretation governs Matthew 13; it does not make every harvest mention an end-time symbol.
Residual uncertainty: No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.
Scripture
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1
- BibleHub lexical summary — Greek therismos: harvest / reaping — Accessed/verified 2026-09-20
Lexical mappings
These are cross-tier mappings only; lexical definitions remain owned by the site’s lexical resources.
- GREEK: θερισμός therismos — G2326
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