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Mat_20:8. Ὀψίας δὲ γεν .] i.e. at the close of the twelfth hour (six o’clock in the evening).
τῷ ἐπιτρόπῳ αὐτοῦ ] the chief of the servants ( οἰκονόμος ), to whom was entrusted the management of the household, Luk_8:3.
τὸν μισθόν ] the wages in question. The οἰκονόμος had instructions from his master to give the same amount of wages to all, although all had not wrought the same number of hours.
ἕως τῶν πρώτων ] is connected with ἀπόδος αὐτ . τ . μισθ ., without anything requiring to be understood (and continuing, and such like), as is evident from those passages in which the terminus ad quem is placed first; for example, Plat. Legg. vi. p. 771 C: πάσας τὰς διανομὰς ἔχει μέχρι τῶν δώδεκα ἀπὸ μιᾶς ἀρξάμενος . Comp. Luk_23:5; Act_1:21; Joh_8:9.