John Gill Commentary Matthew 25:27

"thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back mine own with interest." — Matthew 25:27 (ASV)

You ought therefore to have put my money to the
exchangers
"Trapezites", or "tablets", the same whom the Jews

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and then at my coming I should have received my own with usury :
This is said not so much to encourage usury, though it may be lawful; and it seems to have been a practice in those times to put money out to use upon a reasonable interest; but to reprove the sloth and inactivity of this servant, upon his own reasonings, and the character he had given of his master.

FOOTNOTES:

• F26: call (Mynxlwv) , and is the same word which is here used in Munster's Hebrew Gospel; who were so called from the table that stood before them, on which they told, and paid their money, and the exchange and use: hence all the Oriental versions here read, "you should have put my money to, or on the table"; put it into the hand of these bankers, where it would have been not only safe, as in the earth, where it was hid, but also would have made some increase, and would have been returned with profit; Maimon. Hilch. Shekalim, c. 1. sect. 9. & c. 2. sect. 1.