Maketh a reckoning (συναιρε λογον). As in 18:23. Deissmann (Light from the Ancient

East, p. 117) gives two pa…

After a long time, etc. By the return of the lord of those servants to reckon with them is denoted the return of Christ to call men to acc…

After a long time — Here, as in the previous parable, there is a faint suggestion, as it were, of a longer delay than people expec…

There is a reckoning-day coming, even though a long time may elapse before the lord of those servants cometh. Jesus is coming bac…

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

The accounting begins “after a long time,” the implication being that the consummation of the kingdom will be long delayed (24:48; 25:5). “Settled …

After a long time, the Lord of these servants comes
Either in a providential way, by a fit of illness, or in a time …

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,…