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The hire (ho misthos). Old word for wages (Mat 20:8).
Labourers (ergatōn). Any one who works (ergazomai), especially agricultural workers (Mat 9:37).
Who mowed (tōn amēsantōn). Genitive plural of the articular first aorist active participle of amaō (from hama, together), old verb, to gather together, to reap, here only in N.T.
Fields (chōras). Estates or farms (Luk 12:16).
Which is of you kept back by fraud (ho aphusterēmenos aph' humōn). Perfect passive articular participle of aphustereō, late compound (simplex hustereō common as Mat 19:20), to be behindhand from, to fail of, to cause to withdraw, to defraud. Pitiful picture of earned wages kept back by rich Jews, old problem of capital and labour that is with us yet in acute form.
The cries (hai boai). Old word from which boaō comes (Mat 3:3), here only in N.T. The stolen money “cries out” (krazei), the workers cry out for vengeance.
That reaped (tōn therisantōn). Genitive plural of the articular participle first aorist active of therizō (old verb from theros, summer, Mat 24:32), to reap, to harvest while summer allows (Mat 6:26).
Have entered (eiselēluthan). Perfect active third person plural indicative of eiserchomai, old and common compound, to go or come into. This late form is by analogy of the aorist for the usual form in ̇asi.
Of the Lord of Sabaoth (Kuriou Sabaōth). “Of the Lord of Hosts,” quotation from Isa 5:9 as in Rom 9:29, transliterating the Hebrew word for “Hosts,” an expression for the omnipotence of God like Pantokratōr (Rev 4:8). God hears the cries of the oppressed workmen even if the employers are deaf.