Digged in the earth, etc. This represents the conduct of those who neglect the abilities that God has given, and fail to do what He has re…

He that had received one... — There is something strikingly suggestive in the fact that those who had received the higher sums wer…

We are grieved to know that there are people with five talents, and others with two talents, who do as this man did. However, the case is put this …

Glossa Ordinaria: In the preceding parable is set forth the condemnation of those who have not prepared sufficient oil for the…

“At once” relates to the good servants’ promptness to put the money to work by setting up some business and working with the capital to make it gro…

But he that received one
Talent, or the least degree of gifts, for the ministry of the word:

went…

Christ keeps no servants to be idle: they have received their all from Him, and have nothing they can call their own but sin. Our receiving from Ch…

Previously, the Lord tells a parable about the Judgment, in which some are condemned for not keeping the interior spiritual good they had received,…