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Mat_20:1. The parable is peculiar to Matthew.
γάρ ] explaining and confirming what has been said in Mat_19:30.
ἀνθρ . οἰκοδ .] See notes on Mat_13:24, Mat_18:23.
ἅμα πρωΐ ] Comp. notes on Mat_13:29, Act_28:23 : ἀπὸ πρωΐ . Classical writers would say: ἅμα ἕῳ , ἅμα τῇ ἡμέρᾳ , ἅιμα ὄρθρῳ , and such like.
εἰς τὸν ἀμπελ . αὐτοῦ ] into his vineyard, into which he wished to send them, Mat_20:2. Comp. Act_7:9; and see, in general, Wilke, Rhetor, p. 47 f.
On the whole parable, see Rupprecht in the Stud. u. Krit. 1847, p. 396 ff.; Steffensen, ibid. 1848, p. 686 ff.; Besser in the Luther. Zeitschr. 1851, p. 122; Rudel, ibid. p. 511; Münchmeyer, ibid. p. 728. For proof that it is not to be regarded as furnishing directions for the regulation of offices, see Köstlin, d. Wesen d. Kirche, 1854, p. 52 ff.