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He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out.
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The Escalation of Sin
Commentators like Charles Spurgeon highlight the escalating violence in the parable. The tenants' response grows more severe with each servant sent, moving from beating to shameful treatment, and now to 'actual wounding.' This progression illustrates how a heart hardened against God can lead to increasingly defiant and violent sin.
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They wounded (τραυματισαντες). First aorist active participle of τραυματιζω. An old verb, from τραυμα, a wound, but in the N.T. on…
19th Century
Anglican
They wounded him also.—The verb is peculiar to St. Luke, and has a characteristic half-surgical ring in it. It is used by him agai…
Baptist
They are more violent this time; it comes to actual wounding, and to casting out the servant.
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And again he sent the third Perhaps after the return of the Jews from captivity, and between that time and the comin…
Presbyterian
Christ spoke this parable against those who resolved not to acknowledge His authority, though the evidence for it was so compelling. How many resem…
