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  • noun Plural form of reaper.

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Examples

  • The reapers might be a more numerous band than the servants who were employed throughout the year, but to a large extent the constituents must have been the same.

    The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot

  • The reapers are the human ministers of the word, and the reaping is their successful ingathering in conversion here, not the admission of the redeemed into glory at the end of the world.

    The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot

  • The reapers are the angels of God, who are his servants: for as every lord or master has his servants to wait upon him, and to do his commandments, so the angels of God wait upon Him to do his commandments.

    The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. John Welch

  • The ripened grain in the fields is rotting because the reapers are all dead.

    Daughters of India 1908

  • Afar in the field the reapers were at work in the harvest.

    Flower Stories 1903

  • The air was full of voices -- the primal sounds of earth, and man's food-gathering; calling reapers, clattering carts, playing children.

    Lady Connie Humphry Ward 1885

  • And the reapers are the angels -- But whose angels are they?

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • But his wife sat up for a while by the bedside and opened her Bible, and read, "The harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels."

    Parables From Nature 1857

  • Are these servants then the same as those whom He afterwards calls reapers?

    Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842

  • The harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

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