MATTHEW 21:43 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.”
Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. The explicit application of the parable to the religious leaders: the kingdom will be taken from those who did not produce its fruits and given to a people who will. The taken away and given is the judgment and restoration that the parable's vineyard imagery has been building toward.
Church Fathers on Matthew 21:43
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.
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