“But how will you insure that the inheritance will be yours? Merely because you killed him? Hold on! You in fact did kill him, yet the inheritance is still not yours. Do you not recall the Psalm which says: "I lie down and sleep," and then adds, "I wake again"? did you miss that point? While you were gloating that you…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — ON PSALM 41: ON THE FEAST OF THE MARTYRS 9
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7But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our’s.
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5And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.
6Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
— Mark 12:7 —
8And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
9What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.