Pseudo-Chrysostom, on Matt 21:28

“But what think you? A certain man had two sons; and coming to the first, he said: Son, go work today in my vineyard.”

“I suppose that the publicans here are to represent all sinful men, and the harlots all sinful women; because avarice is found the most prevailing vice among men, and fornication among women. For a woman’s life is passed in idleness and seclusion, which are great temptations to that sin, while a man, constantly occupied in various active duties, falls readily into the snare of covetousness, and not so commonly into fornication, as the anxieties of manly cares preclude thoughts of pleasure, which engage rather the young and idle. Then follows the reason of what He had said, For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.