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Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.
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A Day of Reckoning is Coming
Commentators unanimously affirm that this verse points to the future return of Christ for a final judgment. Just as the master returned to settle accounts, Jesus will hold every person accountable for how they have used the gifts, opportunities, and resources He has entrusted to them. This 'reckoning' is certain and unavoidable.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
After a long time, etc. By the return of the lord of those servants to reckon with them is denoted the return of Christ to call men to acc…
Maketh a reckoning (συναιρε λογον). As in 18:23. Deissmann (Light from the Ancient
East, p. 117) gives two pa…
19th Century
Anglican
After a long time — Here, as in the previous parable, there is a faint suggestion, as it were, of a longer delay than people expec…
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Baptist
There is a reckoning-day coming, even though a long time may elapse before the lord of those servants cometh. Jesus is coming bac…
The accounting begins “after a long time,” the implication being that the consummation of the kingdom will be long delayed (24:48; 25:5). “Settled …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
After a long time, the Lord of these servants comes Either in a providential way, by a fit of illness, or in a time …
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Christ keeps no servants to be idle: they have received their all from Him, and have nothing they can call their own but sin. Our receiving from Ch…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, the Lord tells a parable about the Judgment, in which some are condemned for not keeping the interior spiritual good they had received,…
