Luke 16:10 — Community Reflections

LUKE 16:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.”

Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much — the faithfulness-in-little principle: the character displayed in small responsibilities reveals the character that will operate in large responsibilities. Trustworthiness is not contextual but character — it doesn't vary with the size of the trust.

Church Fathers on Luke 16:10

The steward whom his Lord cast out of his stewardship is nevertheless commended because he provided himself against the future. As it follows, And the Lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely; we ought not however to take the whole for our imitation. For we should never act deceitfully against our Lord in order that from the fraud itself we may give alms.
Augustine · 4th century

But because the Gentiles say that wisdom is a virtue, and define it to be the experience of what is good, evil, and indifferent, or the knowledge of what is and what is not to be done, we must consider whether this word signifies many things, or one. For it is said that God by wisdom prepared the heavens. Now it is plain that wisdom is good, because the Lord by wisdom prepared the heavens. It is said also in Genesis, according to the LXX, that the serpent was the wisest…
Origen · 3rd century

The children of light and the children of this world are spoken of in the same manner as the children of the kingdom, and the children of hell. For whatever works a man does, he is also termed their sun.
Bede · 8th century

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