Mat 21:40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those husbandmen?
Christ often ends his analogies with a question for the crowd. His goal is to make people think. The answer to this question, that the husbandmen deserve death. The crowd goes further, however, realizing that the vineyard will be given to other, mkore deserving people.
In using parables, Christ is telling us that the way God works isn't a complete mystery. It makes sense. In using this questions, Christ is telling us that we can figure out the mind of God for ourself. We just have to see things from the right perspective.
Stories like this should make those who claim that Christ was a socialist pause. Here, we have some people, the husbandmen, practicing socialism. As the workers, they feel they have a right to the product of their work. They feel free to not only ignore the rights of the landowner, but to kill his representatives and even his son for their "freedom."
Christ makes it clear that this is not the way the world works. It is not the way God works. Socialism, at its heart, is the desire to remake the rules of nature according to our own desires. We do not make those rules. God does.
"Come" is from erchomai, which means "to come" and "to go." It means "to set out" and "to arrive at." It is a little like we use the phrase "he is on his way,"or "to be under way," which can mean either that he is coming or going with no direct reference to the position of the speaker.
"Do" is from poieƓ, which has two general meanings of "make" and "do." In the sense of "make" it means "produce," "bring into existence," "bring about," and "cause." In the sense of "do," it means "to act" and "to be effective."
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