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¢ Lk. viii. 3.7. λέγουσιν αὐτῷ, Ὅτι οὐδεὶς ἡμᾶς ἐμισθώσατο.
λέγει αὗτοῖς,
«ΓΚ. xxiii. 5; Ὑπάγετε καὶ ὑμεῖς εἰς τὸν ἀμπελῶνα, καὶ ὃ ἐὰν ᾖ δίκαιον λήψεσθε.!
Gal. iv. 2. XXIV. 27, 47.
ry οἷο Μο όυα g Lk. ix. 3; αὔτου, Χ.1. John ii, 6. Rev, PEVOS iv. 8; xxi. 21. b Lk. v. 30 a
σοι α A 3 ra A , ἀπὸ τῶν ἐσχάτων ἕως τῶν πρώτων. τὴν ἑνδεκάτην ὥραν ἔλαβον © ava 5 δηνάριον.
Acts 8. ᾿Οψίας δὲ γενομένης λέγει ὁ κύριος τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος τῷ ° ἐπιτρόπῳ Κάλεσον τοὺς ἐργάτας, καὶ ἀπόδος αὐτοῖς 3 τὸν µισθόν, * ἀρξά-
ϱ. καὶ ἐλθόντες ὃ of περὶ 10. ἐλθόντες δὲ οἱ
(πρός τινα). πρῶτοι ἐνόμισαν ὅτι πλείονα ὃ λήψονται: καὶ ἔλαβον καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀνὰ
ohn vi. , i 6x (περί δη νάριον.6 τινος); 43 (µετ ἀλλήλων). »
τ σος XK. 10 (absol.).
i Acts xv. 33-
2 Cor xi. 25. James iv. 13.
1 The words και ο εαν . . WBDLZ.
II. λαβόντες δὲ " ἐγόγγυζον κατὰ τοῦ οἰκοδεσπότου, “i yo, λέγοντε, “Ore? οὗτοι of ἔσχατοι play Spay ! ἐποίησαν, καὶ ἴσους ἡμῖν αὐτοὺς ὃ ἐποίησας, τοῖς βαστάσασι τὸ βάρος τῆς ἡμέρας
.ληψεσθε come in from ver. 4, and are wanting in
Σαντοις wanting in $CLZ, but found in BD and many other uncials (W.H. in
margin).
8 So in ΜΟΙ, and many other uncials ; ελθοντες δε in BD (W.H.).
4 καν ελθοντες in BCD (W.H.). 6 ava Syv. καὶ αντοι in KNBLZ.
ὄπλειον in ΒΟΝ2Σ. 7S8BD omit οτι.
8 αυτους ηµιν in $DLZ. BCN asintext. W.H., former in text, latter in mar-
gin.
may be of value.—rt ὧδε ἑστήκατε, etc., why stand ye here (ἑστήκ., perfect active, neuter in sense, and used as a present) all the day idle? The question answers itself: no man would stand all the day in the market-place idle unless because he wanted work and could not get it—Ver. 7. ὑπάγετε καὶ ὑμεῖς: these words said this time with marked emphasis =you too go, though it be so late. This employer would probably be talked of among the workers as a man who had a hobby—a character; they might even laugh at his peculiar ways. The clause about payment in Τ. R. is obviously out of place in this case. The pay the last gang were entitled to was not worth speaking about.
Vv. 8-12. The evening settlement.— Ver. 8. ἀρξάμενος: a pregnant word, including not only the commencement of the process of paying but its progress. There is an ellipsis, καὶ ἐλθὼν being understood before €ws (Kypke). Grotius thinks this does not really mean beginning with the last comers, but without regard to order of coming in, so that no one should be overlooked. He fails to see that the idiosyncrasy of the master is a leading point, indeed the key to the meaning of the parable. This beginning with the last is an eccentricity from an ordinary everyday-life point of
view. The master chooses to do so: to begin with those who have no claims.—Ver. 9. ἀνὰ δηνάριον, a denarius each; ava is distributive = “ accipiebant singulidenar.”. For this use of ava vide Herrmann’s Viger, p. 576.—Ver. 10. oi πρῶτοι: the intermediates passed over, as non-essential to the didactic purpose, we arrive at the first, the men hired on a regular bargain in the morning.— ἐνόμισαν: they had noticed the paying of the last first, and had curiously watched to see or hear what they got, and they come with great expectations: twelve hours’ work, therefore twelve times the sum given to the one-hour men.—xai αὐτοί: surprising! only a penny | What a strange, eccentric master! He had seen expectation in their faces, and anticipated with amusement their chagrin. The money was paid by the over- seer, but he was standing by enjoying the scene.—Ver. 11. ἐγόγγυζον: im- perfect; the grumbling went on from man to man as they were being paid; to the overseer, but at (κατὰ) the master, and so that he could overhear.—Ver. 12, Their grievous complaint.—etrat, these, with a workman’s contempt for a sham- worker.—éroincay. Some (Wetstein, Meyer, Goebel, etc.) render, spent = they put in their one hour: without doing any work to speak of, The verb