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But his lord answered him, `You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn`t sow, and gather where I didn`t scatter.
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A Sarcastic Rebuke
Commentators unanimously agree that the master is not admitting to being harsh. Instead, he is using the servant's own excuse against him with powerful sarcasm. The master's point is essentially, "If you really thought I was such a demanding man, the logical thing would have been to at least do the bare minimum to avoid my wrath. Your inaction proves you are not just fearful, but lazy." This condemns the servant with his own words.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Slothful. Indolent, lazy, who had done nothing. God will judge men not merely for doing wrong, but for not doing right. See Matthew 25:45.…
Thou wicked and slothful servant (πονηρε δουλε κα οκνηρε). From πονος (work, annoyance, disturbance, evil) and οκνεω (to be slow, …
19th Century
Anglican
Thou wicked and slothful servant—The words of the master pierce below the false excuse, and reveal the faults which had e…
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Baptist
His lord took him on his own ground, and condemned him out of his own mouth.
The master condemns the servant on the basis of the servant’s own words, which prove his guilt. If the master really was so harsh and greedy, shoul…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
His Lord answered and said unto him Resenting, as he well might, not only his indolence and sloth, his neglect of hi…
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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,…
