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You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.
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Condemned by His Own Words
Commentators unanimously agree that the master turns the servant's excuse back on him. If the servant truly believed his master was harsh and demanding, that very fear should have motivated him to at least take the safest, minimal step of earning interest. This reveals his excuse was a cover for laziness, not genuine fear.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The exchangers. The exchangers were persons who were in the habit of borrowing money or receiving it on deposit at a low rate of interest,…
Thou oughtest therefore (εδσ σε ουν). His very words of excuse convict him. It was a necessity (εδε) that he did not see.
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19th Century
Anglican
You ought to have put my money to the exchangers—literally, table or counter-keepers, just as bankers were origi…
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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
You ought therefore to have put my money to theexchangers "Trapezites", or "tablets", the same whom the Jews
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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,…
