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Take up (aron). First aorist active imperative of airō. Pick up, as if he had saucily refused to take it from the table or had contemptuously thrown the denarius on the ground. If the first had been paid first and sent away, there would probably have been no murmuring, but “the murmuring is needed to bring out the lesson” (Plummer). The dēnarius was the common wage of a day labourer at that time.
What I will (ho thelō). This is the point of the parable, the will of the householder.
With mine own (en tois emois). In the sphere of my own affairs. There is in the Koiné an extension of the instrumental use of en.