ὑποκριταί : plural less personal than the singular (T.R.), yet severe enough, though directed against the class. The case put was doubtless according to the prevailing custom, and so stated as to make the work done prominent (λύει, looses, that one bit of work: ἀπάγων, leading the animal loosed to the water, that another, vide Bengel). ποτίζει, gives him drink, at least to the extent of drawing water from the well, if not of carrying it to the animal's mouth (the former allowed, the latter disallowed in the Talmud, vide Lightfoot and Wünsche).

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