MATTHEW 25:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.”
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. The distribution according to ability: the unequal distribution reflects the master's knowledge of each servant's capacity. The talent (a large unit of monetary value — sixty times a day's wage) communicates the significance of what is entrusted. The then he went away produces the period of absence during which the servants must act.
Church Fathers on Matthew 25:15
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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