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LUKE 19:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 19:20Luke 19:22
“For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.”
I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow — afraid of you because you are a hard man: the fear-based rationalization. You take out what you did not put in: the accusation of the servant who understands the master's character as exploitative. The fear of the master's character produces the inaction that brings judgment.

Church Fathers on Luke 19:21

There were some who thought that our Savior’s kingdom would commence at His first coming, and they were expecting it shortly to appear when He was preparing to go up to Jerusalem; so astonished were they by the divine miracles which He did. He therefore informs them, that He should not receive the kingdom from His Father until He had left mankind to go to His Father.

Eusebius of Caesarea · 4th century

The Lord points out the vanity of their imaginations, for the senses cannot embrace the kingdom of God; He also plainly shows to them, that as God He knew their thoughts, putting to them the following parable, A certain nobleman, &c.

Theophylact · 11th century

This parable is intended to set before us the mysteries of Christ from the first to the last. For God was made man, who was the Word from the beginning; and though He became a servant, yet was He noble because of His unspeakable birth from the Father.

Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century
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