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Mat 20:12. Οὗτοι, κ.τ.λ., these, etc.) Envy is frequently more anxious to take from another than to obtain for itself. They envy, not those of the ninth, sixth, and third, but only those of the eleventh hour.-οἱ ἔσχατοι, the last) The labourers use this expression from envy.-ἐποίησαν, have spent) See Act 15:33.[880]-ἡμῖν, to us) They speak also for those who had come at the intermediate hours, and who, though they had borne a less burthen than that of the whole day, had yet endured the midday heat.-βάρος, burthen) internally, of labour.-τῆς ἡμέρας, of the day) sc. the whole.-καὑσωνα, heat) externally, of the sun.
[880] Ποιήσαντες-χρόνον, Having tarried a space: as ποιέω is here taken by Beng. and the margin of our Engl. Bible of continuance of time, “These last have continued one hour only.”-ED.