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MATTHEW 18:28 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 18:27Matt 18:29
“But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.”
But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying: pay what you owe. The contrast: the servant forgiven ten thousand talents immediately seizes a fellow servant who owes him one hundred denarii — about three months' wages. The seizing and choking communicates the violence of the demand. The one who was released from an unpayable debt demands payment of a manageable one.

Church Fathers on Matthew 18:28

That none should think that the Lord had enjoined something great and burdensome in saying that we must forgive till seventy times seven, He adds a parable.

Chrysostom · 4th century

For it is customary with the Syrians, especially they of Palestine, to add a parable to what they speak; that what their hearers might not retain simply, and in itself, the instance and similitude may be the means of retaining.

Jerome · 4th century

30): The Son of God, as He is wisdom, righteousness, and truth, so is He a kingdom; not indeed any of those which are beneath, but all those which are above, reigning over those in whose senses reigns justice and the other virtues; these are made of heaven because they bear the image of the heavenly. This kingdom of heaven then, i.e. the Son of God, when He was made in the likeness of sinful flesh, was then like to a king, in uniting man to himself.

Origen · 3rd century · (vid. 1 Cor 1
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