Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
A hedge (fragmon). Or fence as a protection against wild beasts.
Digged a winepress (wrucen lhnon). Out of the solid rock to hold the grapes and wine as they were crushed. Such wine-vats are to be seen today in Palestine.
Built a tower (wkodomhsen purgon). This for the vinedressers and watchmen (2 Chronicles 26:10). Utmost care was thus taken. Note "a booth in a vineyard" (Isaiah 1:8). See also Isaiah 24:20; Job 27:18. Let it out (ecedeto, ecedoto the usual form). For hire, the terms not being given. The lease allowed three forms, money-rent, a proportion of the crop, or a definite amount of the produce whether it was a good or bad year. Probably the last form is that contemplated here.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Mark 12:1
Mark 12:1
Luke 14:28
Luke 15:13
Luke 20:9
Ephesians 2:14
James 5:7
2 Peter 2:21
Revelation 14:19
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