MATTHEW 25:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.”
Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. The minimum expectation: if the servant was too afraid to trade directly, he should have deposited the talent with bankers to earn interest. The interest would have been modest but would have demonstrated at least the minimal engagement with the entrusted resource.
Church Fathers on Matthew 25:27
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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