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MATTHEW 18:33 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 18:32Matt 18:34
“Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?”
And should you not have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you? The rhetorical question — should you not have had mercy — is the kingdom's logic of received mercy producing extended mercy. The mercy that the king showed must produce the same mercy in the one who received it. The failure to extend the received mercy is the wickedness that triggers the reversal.

Church Fathers on Matthew 18:33

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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