MATTHEW 21:41 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.”
They said to him: he will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons. The religious leaders' answer is the correct judicial response — and they do not recognize that they have pronounced their own judgment. The other tenants who will give the fruits are the Gentile communities and the restored Israel that will receive the kingdom and produce its fruit.
Church Fathers on Matthew 21:41
The design of this further parable is to shew that their guilt was heinous, and unworthy to be forgiven.
The householder is God, who in some parables is represented as a man. As it were a father condescending to the infant lisp of his little child, in order to instruct him.
He is called man, by title, not by nature; in a kind of likeness, not in verity. For the Son knowing that by occasion of His human name He himself should be blasphemed as though he were mere man, spoke therefore of the Invisible God the Father as man; He who by nature is Lord of Angels and men, but by goodness their Father.
Read all 58 entries in the readerCatena Aurea · St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. J. H. Newman · public domain
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a reflection on this verse
No reflections on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!