Then began he to speak to the people this parable;
A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it out to tenants, and went into a far country for a long time.
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Basil the Great
AD 379
And this happens as it were to men who are condemned, having nothing to answer to the plain evidence of justice. But it is the property of Divine mercy not to inflict punishment in secret, but to foretell it with threatenings, that so it might recall men to repentance; and thus it follows here, He shall come and destroy those husbandmen.
