The consummation of the age is the last time when judgment takes place; the time of harvest is when all things are consummated, that is, are fulfilled; the tares" mean evils or those in whom evils are, and the wheat means goods or those in whom goods are. (But of these see further in the small work on The Last Judgment, n. 65-72.) From all this it can in some measure be known why it was sai