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They all as one began to make excuses. The first said to him, `I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.`
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Excuses That Don't Hold Water
Commentators like Charles Spurgeon and John Gill highlight the absurdity of the first excuse. Who buys a field without seeing it first, or goes to inspect it at suppertime? Scholars explain that the weakness of the excuse is the point; it reveals the man's true priorities. His claim of 'necessity' was a thin veil for his preference for worldly possessions over God's gracious invitation.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I have bought a piece of ground. Perhaps he had purchased it on condition that he found it as good as it had been represented to him.
With one consent (απο μιας). Some feminine substantive like γνωμης or ψυχης has to be supplied. This precise idiom occurs nowhere …
19th Century
Anglican
They all with one consent . . .—The Greek phrase, as the italics show, is elliptical; but the English idiom expresses its…
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Baptist
Yet it was supper time, and people do not generally go to see pieces of ground at night; and if the man had bought the land, he ought to have seen …
The striking thing is that “all” of them declined. Their excuses are weak. One man “must” go to see a purchased field he probably had seen before h…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And they all with one consent began to make excuse Or, "they all together", as the Vulgate Latin version, (
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