{The last first and the first last} (hoi esch(8374)oi pr(9374)oi
kai hoi pr(9374)oi eschatoi). The adjectives change places as
compared with  19:30 . The point is the same, though this order
suits the parable better. After all one's work does not rest
wholly on the amount of time spent on it. "Even so hath Rabbi Bun
bar Chija in twenty-eight years wrought more than many studious
scholars in a hundred years" (Jer. _Berak._ ii. 5c).