Talk:The Chaff/@comment-26923473-20190227031052/@comment-26342898-20190318172627

Matthew 3:12 "His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

My guess is that the deleted scenes are "the chaff" that were thrown away into a metaphorical fire.