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25. ἀπόδοτε. ‘Pay as their due.’
τὰ Καίσαρος Καίσαρι. St Paul very clearly enforces the same duty in Rom 13:6-7. The ‘tribute’ in Mat 17:24 was quite different; it was the Temple didrachma.
τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ τῷ θεῷ. To Caesar you owe what he demands in his own coinage; to the Temple the tribute which you can only pay in the shekel of the sanctuary; to God you owe yourselves. Pay to Caesar the coins which bear his stamp, to God the duties of your own souls which bear His image. Thus both the conspiring parties—Pharisees and Herodians—obtained a lesson which they needed.