MATTHEW 25:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.”
For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. The Parable of the Talents: the master who entrusts his property to servants before a journey is the second eschatological parable. The entrusting of the property communicates the active responsibility given to the servants during the master's absence — the opposite of the wicked servant's assumption that the absence licenses irresponsibility.
Church Fathers on Matthew 25:14
In the foregoing parable is set forth the condemnation of such as have not prepared sufficient oil for themselves, whether by oil is meant the brightness of good works, or inward joy of conscience, or alms paid in money.
This parable is delivered against those who will not assist their neighbours either with money, or words, or in any other way, but hide all that they have.
The man in travelling into a far country is our Redeemer, who ascended into heaven in that flesh which He had taken upon Him. For the proper home of the flesh is the earth, and it, as it were, travels into a foreign country, when it is placed by the Redeemer in heaven.
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