MATTHEW 25:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.”
Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. The long time of the master's absence — the delay that both the sleeping virgins and the calculating wicked servant imagined might be indefinite — is confirmed: it was a long time. But the master came, and settled accounts. The accounting is the judgment that the Olivet Discourse has been anticipating.
Church Fathers on Matthew 25:19
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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