Luke 19:23 — Community Reflections

LUKE 19:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?”

Why then didn't you put my money on deposit, so that when I came back, I could have collected it with interest? — the minimum: if you were afraid to invest directly, you could have put it in the bank for interest. The minimum possible return is the measure of the servant's failure to do even the least.

Church Fathers on Luke 19:23

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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