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Mat_20:12. Ὅτι ] recitativc, not because ( γογγύζομεν , ὅτι ), inasmuch as the words λέγοντες · ὅτι κ . τ . λ . express the contents of the γογγύζειν .
οὗτοι ] spoken disdainfully.
ἐποίησαν ] they have spent one hour (Act_15:33; Act_18:23; 2Co_11:25; Ecc_6:12; Wetstein on this passage; Schaeffer, ad Bos. p. 313; Jacobs, in Anthol. IX. p. 449, X. p. 44). The ordinary interpretation: they have wrought, laboured, one hour, is in opposition to the terms of the passage (as little is it to be confirmed by an appeal to Rth_2:19, where ποῦ ἐποίησας means: where hast thou been occupying thyself?); there would have been more reason to interpret thus: they have been doing it (that is, the work) for one hour, if the specifying of the time in connection with ἐποίησαν had not suggested our explanation as the most obvious and most natural.
τ . καύσωνα ] Those others had not entered till the evening.