Equal unto us (ισους αυτους ημιν). Associative instrumental case ημιν after ισους. It was a regular protest against the supposed i…

The burden and the heat of the day. The burden means the heavy labour, the severe toil. We have continued at that toil, in the heat of the…

But one hour—Literally, in what was probably the technical language of laborers, worked only one hour.

The …

But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny. And when they had rec…

Remigius of Auxerre: To establish the truth of the saying, “There are many who are first who will be last, and the last fi…

Laborers were customarily paid at the end of each day (cf. Leviticus 19:13). The foreman is told to pay each worker the standard day-lab…

Saying, these last have wrought but one hour
Thinking it hard, that they should have the same reward for the service…

This parable's primary purpose seems to show that although the Jews were first called into the vineyard, the gospel would eventually be preached to…

Above, the Lord spoke about the attainment of the kingdom of heaven by the common way of salvation and by the way of perfection. Because certain pe…