MATTHEW 25:28 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.”
So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. The judgment on the fearful servant: the talent is taken from him and given to the one who has ten. The redistribution — from the one who buried to the one who gained — is the application of Matthew 13:12's principle: the one who has will receive more; the one who does not have will lose even what he has.
Church Fathers on Matthew 25:28
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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