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Matthew 21:40

When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?

When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh. This represents 'the settling time,' which, in the case of the Jewish ecclesiastics, was that judicial trial of the nation and its leaders which issued in the destruction of their whole state.

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