Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 21:33

33 Hear another parable. There was a certain housholder which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a wine-press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.

Mark hath this Parable, Ch. 12.1. Luke hath it, Ch. 20.9. who is here intended under the Notion of an Housholder: Or a Man. We are told by the Prophet Isaiah, Ch. 5.1, 2. It is the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, the House of Israel, and the Men of Iudah are his Vineyard, his pleasant P[illegible: 1 letter]ant, v. 7. he hedged this People by his Providence; God often compareth his Church to a Vineyard, Deut. 32.32. Psal. 80.8 Ier. 2.21. the other Expressions of making in it a Wine-press, or a Wine-fat, signi[illegible: 2 letters]e no more than that God had provided for the Iews all things nece[illegible: 1 letter]sary for use, or Ornament, his letting of it ou[illegible: 1 letter] to Husband-men, and going into a far Country, signifies that being himself, as to his Glorious residence in Heaven, he had betru[illegible: 1 letter]ed the Church of the [illegible: 1 letter]ews, with an High Priest, and other Priests and Levites.

Marginal references: C[illegible: 1 letter]nt. 5.11.