Mat 21:34. Ὅτε δὲ ἤγγισεν ὁ καιρὸς τῶν καρπῶν, But when the season of the fruit drew near) Comp. Joh 4:35. Here also lurks the reason why the Messiah had not come sooner.-τοὺς δούλους, His servants) Servants here represent the extraordinary and greater ministers of God; labourers, the ordinary.[936]-τοὺς καρποὺς, the fruits) understand, of the householder, or rather, of the vineyard.
[936] Of whom the former are for the most part received badly by the latter, inasmuch as these take it ill that they should be disturbed in their quiet holding of the vineyard.-V. g.