Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Matthew 20:8
So when even was come—that is, the reckoning time between masters and laborers (see Deuteronomy 24:15); pointing to the day of final account.
the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward—answering to Christ Himself, represented "as a Son over His own house" (Hebrews 3:6; see Matthew 11:27; John 3:35; John 5:27).
Call the labourers and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first—Remarkable direction this—last hired, first paid.
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