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When he shall return from the marriage feast (pote analusēi ek tōn gamōn). The interrogative conjunction pote and the deliberative aorist subjunctive retained in the indirect question. The verb analuō, very common Greek verb, but only twice in the N.T. (here and Phi 1:23). The figure is breaking up a camp or loosening the mooring of a ship, to depart. Perhaps here the figure is from the standpoint of the wedding feast (plural as used of a single wedding feast in Luk 14:8), departing from there. See note on Mat 22:2.
When he cometh and knocketh (elthontos kai krousantos). Genitive absolute of the aorist active participle without autou and in spite of autoi (dative) being used after anoixōsin (first aorist active subjunctive of anoigō).