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When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
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An Impossible Debt
Commentators stress that "ten thousand talents" was a deliberately astronomical and unpayable sum. For context, one scholar notes the annual tax revenue for a region like Galilee was only 200 talents. Jesus uses this hyperbole to illustrate that our sin against God is a debt so immense that we have absolutely no ability to repay it on our own.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Ten thousand talents. A talent was a sum of money, or weight of silver or gold, amounting to three thousand shekels. A silver
Ten thousand talents (μυριων ταλαντων). A talent was 6,000 denarii or about a thousand dollars or 240 pounds. Ten thousand times t…
19th Century
Anglican
Ten thousand talents. It is hardly necessary to discuss in detail the value of this sum in modern currency. Assuming the Greek tal…
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Baptist
Ten thousand talents was an immense amount for a servant to owe his king. Some reckon that it was equivalent to two million of our money. It was de…
We glimpse some idea of the size of the indebtedness when we recall that David donated three thousand talents of gold and seven thousand talents of…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when he had begun to reckon To open the book of conscience, and to bring to account by some awakening providence…
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Although we live entirely on mercy and forgiveness, we are reluctant to forgive the offenses of our brothers and sisters. This parable shows how mu…
13th Century
Catholic
Here a parable is related, and He does three things:
