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He said to him also, `You also are to be over five cities.`
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Rewards Match Faithfulness
Commentators note the direct link between the servant's result (five pounds) and his reward (five cities). This illustrates a key principle: our eternal rewards will be proportional to our faithfulness with what God has entrusted to us on earth. As one scholar notes, faithfulness in a 'very little' leads to significant authority in the coming kingdom.
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Be thou also over (κα συ επανο γινου). Present middle imperative. Keep on becoming over. There is no real reason for identifying t…
19th Century
Baptist
And he said to him, Well, you good servant: because you have been faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.
An…
Jesus singles out three of the ten servants as examples. The first two did well, one so well as to receive a special commendation for being “trustw…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he said likewise to him He commended him as a good and faithful servant, though this is not expressed; and added…
Presbyterian
This parable is like that of the talents (Matthew 25). Those who are called to Christ, he furnishes with gifts necessary for their work…
