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Then said he to another, `How much do you owe?` He said, `A hundred cors of wheat.` He said to him, `Take your bill, and write eighty.`
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A Massive Debt
Commentaries explain that the "hundred measures of wheat" represented a massive debt, with one estimate suggesting it was the yield of about one hundred acres. The steward's reduction of the debt was a bold and significant act, highlighting the scale of the situation in the parable.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Measures of wheat. The measure mentioned here—the kor, or homer—contained, according to Dr. Arbuthnot's tables, about 32 pecks, o…
Measures (κορους). Another Hebrew word for dry measure. The Hebrew cor was about ten bushels. Data are not clear about the …
19th Century
Anglican
An hundred measures of wheat.—Here the measure is the Hebrew cor, which is considered equal to ten baths (the la…
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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
Then said he to another, and how much owest thou ? &c.] To my Lord, as before:
and he said, an hu…
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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