Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.
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Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.
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And moreoever he sent vnto them another servaunt and at him they cast stones and brake his heed and sent him agayne all to revyled.
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And againe he sent vnto them another seruant, and at him they cast stones, and brake his head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 4 And again he sent unto them another servant;…
4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
Ver. 4. Wounded him in the head] Caput comminuerunt, they brake his head. Theophylact interpreteth it, They completed their villany, and spent all their spite upon him (συνετελεσαν και εκορυφωσαν την υβριν).
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And again he sent unto them another servant,.... Another…
And again he sent unto them another servant,.... Another set of good men, to instruct, advise, and counsel them, and exhort them to their duty; such as were Isaiah, Zechariah, and others:
and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head; for of these were stoned, as well as sawn asunder, and slain with the sword; though it seems, that this servant, or this set of men, were not stoned to death, because he was afterwards said to be sent away: nor could the stoning be what was done by the order of the sanhedrim, which was done by letting an heavy stone fail upon the heart (k); but this was done by all the people, by the outrageous zealots, in the manner Stephen was stoned. Dr. Lightfoot thinks, the usual sense of the Greek word may be retained; which signifies "to reduce", or "gather into a certain sum": and so as this servant was sent to reckon with these husbandmen, and take an account from them of the fruit of the vineyard, one cast a stone at him, saying, there is fruit for you; and a second cast another stone, saying the same thing; and so they went on one after another, till at last they said, in a deriding way, now the sum is made up with you:
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and sent him away shamefully handled; with great ignominy and reproach.
(k) Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 6. sect. 4.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 4. At him they cast stones and wounded…
Verse 4. At him they cast stones and wounded him in the head] Or rather, as most learned men agree, they made short work of it, εκεφαλαιωσαν. We have followed the Vulgate, illum in capite vulneraverunt, in translating the original, wounded him in the head, in which signification, I believe, the word is found in no Greek writer. ανακεφαλαιοομαι signifies to sum up, to comprise, and is used in this sense by St. Paul, Ro 13:9. From the parable we learn that these people were determined to hear no reason, to do no justice, and to keep the possession and the produce by violence; therefore they fulfilled their purpose in the fullest and speediest manner, which seems to be what the evangelist intended to express by the word in question. Mr. Wakefield translates, They speedily sent him away; others think the meaning is, They shaved their heads and made them look ridiculously; this is much to the same purpose, but I prefer, They made short work of it. Dr. Lightfoot, De Dieu, and others, agree in the sense given above; and this will appear the more probable, if the word λιθοβολησαντες, they cast stones, be omitted, as it is by BDL, the Coptic, Vulgate, and all the Itala.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. wounded him in the head] The original word,…
4. wounded him in the head] The original word, which generally denotes to comprehend in one sum, or under one head, is nowhere else used in this sense. Some MSS. omit the words they cast stones, and instead of “sent him away shamefully handled,” read simply, “used him shamefully” (comp. 2Sa_10:4). Thus Jezebel “slew the prophets of the Lord” (1Ki_18:13); Micaiah was thrown into a dungeon by Ahab (1Ki_22:24-27); Elijah was threatened with death by Jezebel (1Ki_19:2); Elisha by Jehoram (2Ki_6:31); Zechariah was stoned at the commandment of Joash (2Ch_24:21; comp. 2Ch_36:16); Jeremiah was stoned by the exiles in Egypt; Isaiah, according to Jewish tradition, was sawn asunder (Heb_11:37-38; 2Ch_36:15-16).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4) At him they cast stones.—The participle so rendered…
(4) At him they cast stones.—The participle so rendered is wanting in the best MSS., and probably originated in a marginal note explaining how the labourers wounded the second servant.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 he sent to them
he sent to them
"the owner of the vineyard sent to the vine growers"
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they wounded him in the head
This can be written more clearly. AT: "they beat that one on the head, and they hurt him terribly" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
yet another ... many others
These phrases refer to other servants. AT: "yet another servant ... many other servants" (See: Ellipsis)
They treated many others in the same way
This refers to servants that the owner sent. The phrase "in the same way" refers to them being mistreated. This can be written clearly. AT: "They also mistreated many other servants whom he sent" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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shame
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