from the things that have been said previously.190 For before this the following is written: “Many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first,”191 where the Lord is describing not the timing but their faith. And he says that the householder went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. He established the wage of a denarius for the work. Then, when he went out at around the third hour, he saw others standing in the marketplace idle, and for these he had promised not
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