Matthew 24:41 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 24:41

Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

two women shall be grinding at the mill; one is taken, and one is left.

KJV

Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Verse 40, 41.) Then there will be two in the field: one will be taken, and one will be left. Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken, and one will be left. Then, He said, there will be two in the field, when, at the time of the consummation and judgment, two will be found in the field having the same labor and almost the same sowing, but not receiving the fruits of labor equally. Two women grinding together will also be there: one will be taken, and one will be left.

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The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

The two grinding together we may understand either of the Synagogue and the Church, which seem to grind together in the Law, and to make of the same Scriptures meal of the commandments of God; or of other heresies, which out of both or one Testament, seem to grind meal of their own doctrines.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Two women shall be grinding at the mill,.... Though the word women is not in the Greek text, yet it is rightly supplied by our translators, as it is in the Persic version; for the word rendered grinding, is in the feminine gender, and was the work of women, as appears both from the Scripture, Exo 11:5 and from several passages in the Jewish writings, concerning which their canons run thus (p), "These are the works which a woman is to do for her husband, טוחנת, "she must grind", and bake, and wash, and boil, and make his bed, &c.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Two women ... - Grinding in the East was performed, as it is now, chiefly by hand. The millstones were about 2 feet in diameter and 12 foot in thickness. The lower one was fixed, and the upper one was turned by a handle or crank. This was done by two persons, who sat opposite to each other. One took hold of the mill-handle and turned it half-way round; the other then seized it and completed the revolution. This was done by women - by servants of the lowest order - and was a very laborious employment.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

(1856)

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
δύο	duo	Two [women]	G1417 →
ἀλήθουσαι	alēthousai	grinding	G229 →
ἐν	en	at	G1722 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
μύλῳ·	mulō	mill;	G3458 →
μία	mia	one	G1520 →
παραλαμβάνεται	paralambanetai	is taken	G3880 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
μία	mia	one	G1520 →
ἀφίεται.	aphietai	is left.	G863 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 47:2
Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
leads to
- Judges 16:21
  Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Exodus 11:5
  and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 20:4
  so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.
Through
Exodus 11:5
and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well…
leads to
- Psalms 78:51
  He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.
- Exodus 13:15
  And when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast. This is why I sacrifice to the LORD the firstborn…
- Exodus 12:29
  Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon,…
- Psalms 136:10
  He struck down the firstborn of Egypt His loving devotion endures forever.
- Exodus 4:23
  and I told you to let My son go so that he may worship Me. But since you have refused to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son!’”

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Matthew

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Matthew