MATTHEW 25:26 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:”
But his master answered him: you wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? The master's response accepts the servant's description of himself — if you knew I was that kind of master — and turns it against the servant. The wicked and slothful is the master's characterization: the same category as the wicked servant of Matthew 24:48.
Church Fathers on Matthew 25:26
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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