MATTHEW 25:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.”
He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. The immediate and active response of the five-talent servant: went at once and traded. The at once communicates the urgency and initiative that the faithful servant brings to the entrusted resources. The five talents gained is the 100% return that the parable will commend.
Church Fathers on Matthew 25:16
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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