δώσουσιν, אABL, La[344] Ti[345] &c. δῶσιν is probably a grammatical emendation.

[344] La. Lachmann.
[345] Ti. Tischendorf.

10. δοῦλον. The various ‘servants’ are the Judges, the better Priests, and the Prophets.

ἵνα … δώσουσιν. This construction—ἵνα with the future indicative in a final clause—would of course be a strange solecism in classical Greek. For this very reason the reading has been corrected by the copyists into δῶσιν. See note on Luke 19:40.

ἀπὸ τοῦ καρποῦ. The payment is in kind, on the métayer system.

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