Psalms 80:8-19
vine <01612> [a vine.]
drove <01644> [thou hast cast.]
This most elegant allegory, which is every where well supported, is frequently employed by sacred writers: see the Parallel Passages.
cleared <06437> [preparedst.]
root <08328> [to take.]
filled <04390> [and it.]
highest cedars <0730 0410> [goodly cedars. Heb. cedars of God.]
break down <06555> [broken.]
boars <02386> [The boar.]
This wild boar, {chazir,} is the parent stock of our domestic hog. He is much smaller, but stronger, and more undaunted, colour, an iron grey inclining to black; snout, longer than that of the common breed: ears comparatively short; tusks, very formidable; and habits, fierce and savage. He is particularly destructive to corn-fields and vineyards.
back <07725> [Return.]
Look <05027> [look down.]
root <03657> [vineyard.]
shoot <01121> [the branch.]
Or, "the Son," {ben,} or as 18 MSS., LXX., Vulgate, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic read, {ben adam,} "Son of man;" which the Targumist renders {makla mesheecha,} "the King Messiah."
burned <08313> [burned.]
die <06> [perish.]
turn away <05472> [So will.]
Revive <02421> [quicken.]
restore <07725> [Turn us.]
<06440> [cause.]
Jeremiah 2:21
planted <05193> [Yet I.]
best <0571> [wholly.]
produces rotten foul-smelling grapes <05494> [into the degenerate.]
Matthew 21:33-46
Listen <191> [Hear.]
In this parable, in its primary sense, the householder denotes the Supreme Being; the family, the Jewish nation; the vineyard, Jerusalem; the fence, the Divine protection; the wine-press, the law and sacrificial rites; the tower, the temple; and the husbandmen, the priests and doctors of the law.
<2258> [There.]
to tenant farmers <1092> [husbandmen.]
went on a journey <589> [went.]
he sent <649> [he sent.]
to collect <2983> [that.]
Finally <5305> [last.]
They will respect <1788> [They.]
This <3778> [This.]
seized <2983> [caught.]
threw <1544> [cast.]
killed <615> [slew.]
what <5101> [what.]
They said <3004> [they say.]
Our Lord here causes them to pass that sentence of destruction upon themselves which was literally executed about forty years afterwards by the Roman armies.
utterly <2560> [He will.]
he will lease <2532 1554> [and will let out.]
Have you ... read <314> [Did.]
stone <3037> [The stone.]
from .... and <3844 2532 2076> [and it is.]
kingdom <932> [The kingdom.]
to a people <1484> [a nation.]
falls ................ falls <4098> [whosoever.]
<1161> [but.]
they realized <1097> [they.]
wanted <2212> [they sought.]
<1894> [because.]
Luke 20:9-18
<5026> [this.]
planted <5452> [planted.]
leased ...... and <2532 1554> [and let.]
[husbandman.]
went on a journey <589> [went.]
harvest time came <2540> [the season.]
he sent ......................... sent ... away <649 1821> [sent.]
beat <1194> [beat.]
treated ... outrageously <818> [entreated.]
sent ... away <1821> [and sent.]
What <5101> [What.]
I will send <3992> [I will.]
perhaps <2481> [it may.]
they said <1260> [reasoned.]
heir <2818> [the heir.]
let's kill <615> [let.]
threw <1544> [they.]
What <5101> [What.]
destroy <622> [destroy.]
give <1325> [shall give.]
looked straight <1689> [beheld.]
what <5101> [What.]
stone <3037> [The stone.]
falls ............... it falls <4098> [shall fall.]
This is an allusion to the Jewish mode of stoning. "The place of stoning was twice as high as a man. From the top of this one of the witnesses struck the culprit on the loins, and felled him to the ground: if he died of this, well; if not, the other witness threw a stone upon his heart," etc. Our Lord seems to refer not only to the dreadful crushing of the Jews by the Romans, but also to their general dispersion to the present day.
