A net-cast into the sea; the sea is the world, and the net is the gospel with its ministers and ordinances. This parable has a close relation to that of the tares in the field. It shows the mixture of good and evil which will always exist in the visible church on earth. We should not be discouraged on account of the mixture of evil with good in God's church; for it has always been so, and will be so to the end of time.

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