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Various words are translated 'net,' some signifying large nets, and others the drag net. Symbolically nets represent devices secretly laid or they would be shunned, even as a bird avoids a net spread in its sight. Prov. 1: 17. The kingdom of heaven is compared to a net cast into the sea., which gathers good and bad; 'the wicked' will be sorted from 'the just' at the end of the age. Matt. 13: 47-49. Satan and the wicked also prepare their nets and snares. Ps. 141: 10; 1 Tim. 3: 7.