Luke - 17:35



35 There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other will be left."

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Explanation and meaning of Luke 17:35.

Differing Translations

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Two women shall be grinding together: the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left: two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be keft.
Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be seized and the other shall be let go.
Two women will be grinding together; the one will be taken, and the other left.
two women shall be grinding at the same place together, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;
There will be two women turning the mill together: one will be taken away and the other left behind."
Two women will be crushing grain together; one will be taken away and the other let go.
Two will be at the grindstone together. One will be taken up, and the other will be left behind. Two will be in the field. One will be taken up, and the other will be left behind."

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Historical Commentaries

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Two women shall be grinding together,.... In Matthew 24:41 it is added, "in the mill"; in the house where the mill was, and at one and the same mill; and so the Ethiopic version here, "two shall grind in one mill": and it was common for two women to grind at one hand mill; and though the word "women" is not in the text, it is rightly put into the translation; since the word used is of the feminine gender, and since grinding was the business of women; and so the Persic version here supplies it, as we do; See Gill on Matthew 24:42.
The one shall be taken and the other left; the Roman soldiers entering the mill, will lay hold on the one, and carry her away with them, and leave the other; and for which no other reason can be given, but the sovereign will and providence of God, which should overrule and dispose the minds of these men, to act in such a manner.

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