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- noun Plural form of
reaper .
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The ripened grain in the fields is rotting because the reapers are all dead.
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Afar in the field the reapers were at work in the harvest.
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The air was full of voices -- the primal sounds of earth, and man's food-gathering; calling reapers, clattering carts, playing children.
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And the reapers are the angels -- But whose angels are they?
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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."
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Are these servants then the same as those whom He afterwards calls reapers?
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The harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels.
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