40When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
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What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 33-46)This parable plainly sets forth the sin and ruin of the Jewish nation; they and their leaders are the husbandmen here; and what is spoken for conviction to them, is spoken for caution to all that enjoy the privileges of the visible church, not to be high-minded, but fear. I. We have here the privileges of the Jewish church, represented by the letting out of a vineyard to the husbandmen; they were…
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