Matthew 3:12
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Note d'étude
Study Note
John the Baptist's depiction of the coming one as holding a winnowing fan to thoroughly purge the threshing floor — gathering wheat into the barn and burning the chaff with unquenchable fire — presents the messianic figure primarily as judge before presenting him as savior. The agricultural metaphor would have been immediately comprehensible: the threshing floor was where grain was separated from chaff by tossing mixed material into the wind. The 'unquenchable fire' draws on Malachi 4:1 and develops the Day of the LORD eschatology in unmistakably individual terms: the separation is of persons, not nations. New Testament scholars note that John's baptism of repentance is preparation specifically for this coming judgment, giving John's entire ministry an eschatological urgency.
Autres traductions
whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
whose fan <FI>is<Fi> in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'
In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.
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They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them.
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