Δεῦτε πρός με. Jesus does not give rest to all the heavy laden, but to those of them who shew their want of relief by coming to Him. For δεῦτε see note ch. Matthew 4:19.

κοπιῶντες καὶ πεφορτισμένοι. Answering through parallelism to the last line of the stanza—ὁ γὰρ ζυγὸς κ.τ.λ. The figure is from beasts of burden which either plough or draw chariots, wagons, &c., for which κοπιῶντες and ζυγὸς are appropriate words; or else carry burdens (φορτία).

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