“There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.”
Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty — the parable of the two debtors is among the simplest parables in Luke but one of the most theologically precise. Five hundred and fifty denarii: both are debts, but the ratio is ten to one. Neither debtor can pay — the comparison is not between ability and inability but between the sizes of identical inability.
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