6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
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I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)This parable of the labourers in the vineyard is intended, I. To represent to us the kingdom of heaven (Matt. 20:1), that is, the way and method of the gospel dispensation. The laws of that kingdom are not wrapt up in parables, but plainly set down, as in the sermon upon the mount; but the mysteries of that kingdom are delivered in parables, in sacraments, as here and Matt. 13:1-58 The duties of C…
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