The Lord will reappear to judge, to defend, and in glory.

σκεπασθήσεται] The noun is taken by Lxx. as a passive verb.

6. Cf. xxv. 4, xxxii. 2.

V. Further denunciations are introduced by the Parable of the Vineyard. The theme of the arraignment and warning is as before, but the treatment is rich and varied. At ver. 26 a coming enemy is pointed out with new distinctness, but still not named.

The Vineyard and Vine furnish many similes and allusions in the Bible; see Kay's note on this chapter, and cf. especially Psalm lxxx. 8—16, and Song of Sol. viii. 11—14. The Parable of Husbandmen, Matt. xxi., Mark xii., Luke xx., has strong verbal resemblances to this passage: the moral is also like, though here the vineyard is not merely the scene, but so to speak itself an actor. Notice especially Matt. xxi. 33, Mark xii. 1; the τί ποιήσει of the N.T. parable, beside the τί ποιήσω of ver. 4, 5 here: St Luke's use of the Hebraism προσέθετο πέμψαι, and the δεῦτε ἀποκτείνωμεν of Matthew and Mark, cf. Isai. iii. 10 (Gen. xxxvii. 20).