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He said, `A hundred batos of oil.` He said to him, `Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.`
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A Desperate, Shrewd Fraud
Commentators explain that the steward, about to be fired, acted quickly. He had a debtor who owed "a hundred measures of oil"—a huge amount, potentially over 800 gallons—rewrite his contract to say he only owed fifty. By involving the debtor in his scheme, the steward shrewdly secured a future ally who would be indebted to him.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
An hundred measures. The measure here mentioned is the bath, which contained, according to Dr. Arbuthnot's tables, 7 1/2 gallons,…
Measures (βατους). Transliterated word for Hebrew bath, between eight and nine gallons. Here alone in the N.T. Not the same…
19th Century
Anglican
Take your bill, and sit down quickly.—The better manuscripts give, your bills, or your documents, in th…
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(5–8a) As already noted, the bills may have been written in terms of commodities rather than cash, perhaps in order to hide the actual amount of in…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he said an hundred measures of oil Or "baths of oil", the same quantity as in (Ezra 7:22) where Aben…
Whatever we have, its property belongs to God; we only have the use of it, according to the direction of our great Lord, and for his honor. This st…
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