Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 25:27
Thou oughtest therefore — On that very account, on thy own supposition, to have improved my talent, as far as was possible.
Thou oughtest therefore — On that very account, on thy own supposition, to have improved my talent, as far as was possible.
Verse Matthew 25:27. _WITH USURY._] συν τοκω, _with its produce _- not _usury_; for that is _unlawful_ interest, more than the money can properly produce....
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, to be loaned to others at higher interest. They commonly...
CHAPTER 25 _ 1. The Parable of the Ten Virgins. (Matthew 25:1 .) 2. The Parable of the Servants and the Talents. (Matthew 25:14 .) 3. The Judgment of Nations. (Matthew 25:31 .)_ The second parable is...
THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS (_cf._ Luke 19:11). There is also a resemblance to Mark 13:33, especially Matthew 25:34. Loisy thinks this parable had originally no reference to the Parousia and the Judgme...
THE FATE OF THE UNPREPARED (Matthew 25:1-13)...
Even so, a man who was going abroad called his servants, and handed over his belongings to them. To one he gave a thousand pounds; to another five hundred pounds; to another two hundred and fifty poun...
EXCHANGERS. bankers. So called from the tables or counters at which they sat. Greek. _trapezites._ Occurs only here. USURY. interest. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 23:19; Deuteronomy 23:20). Co...
_put my money_ It was not thine own. _to the exchangers_ i. e. "to the bankers," literally, TO THOSE WHO STAND AT TABLES, (Lat. _mensarii_), because the bankers had tables before them. This was the v...
The Parable of the Talents, in this Gospel only The parable of the Pounds, Luke 19:12-27, is similar, but there are important points of distinction; (1) in regard to the occasions on which the two pa...
ΤῸ�. It was not thine own. ΤΟΙ͂Σ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΊΤΑΙΣ. To the bankers, who set up tables or counters (τράπεζαι) for the purpose of lending or exchanging money. In the cities of eastern Russia Jewish bankers (τ...
THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS, in this Gospel only. The parable of the Pounds, Luke 19:12-27, is similar, but there are important points of distinction; (1) in regard to the occasions on which the two...
Ver 14. "For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. 15. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and...
_THE SERVANT THAT DID NOT USE HIS TALENT MATTHEW 25:24-30:_ The man that did not use what God put into his hands is one of the most condemned men in the entire Bible. "You wicked and lazy servant... t...
ΈΔΕΙ _impf. act. ind. от_ ΔΕΙ (G1163) необходимо; с _асс._ и _inf. impf._ указывает на нереализованную ответственность, ΒΑΛΕΊΝ _aor. inf. act. от_ ΒΆΛΛΩ (G906) бросать; здесь: приносить, ΤΡΑΠΕΖΊΤΗΣ...
5. ILLUSTRATION OF THE WISE AND FOOLISH STEWARDS (25:14-30) 14 For _it is_ as _when_ a man, going into another country, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. 15 And unto one he g...
Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. THOU OUGHTEST THEREFORE TO HAVE PUT MY MONEY TO THE EXCHANGERS, ...
1 The parable of the ten virgins applies only to the kingdom at the time specified. When the Lord comes in glory to enter into covenant relationship with Israel at the commencement of the day of Jehov...
THE TEN VIEGINS. THE TALENTS. THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS The whole of this a, which is entirely concerned with the Second Advent, and contains some of the most striking of all Christ's sayings, is pecul...
PARABLE OF THE TALENTS (distinct from, though similar to, that of the Pounds, Luke 19:11, q.v.). The parable is intended for all Christians, warning even those of the meanest ability to use to the bes...
TO THE EXCHANGERS] RV 'bankers.' 'We cannot regard these words as a perfectly idle sentence, for they furnish an appropriate thought. These timid natures who are not adapted for independent labour on...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 25 THE STORY ABOUT THE TEN YOUNG WOMEN 25:1-13 V1 ‘At that time, it will be like this where God rules: Ten young women took their la...
THOU OUGHTEST THEREFORE TO HAVE PUT MY MONEY TO THE EXCHANGERS. — Literally, _table_ or _counter-keepers,_ just as bankers were originally those who sat at their _bancum,_ or bench. These were the ban...
CHAPTER 18 The Prophecy on the Mount - Matthew 24:1 & Matthew 25:1 WE have seen that though the Saviour's public ministry is now closed, He still has a private ministry to discharge-a ministry of cou...
ἔδει, etc., you ought in that case to have cast my silver to the money-changers, or bankers. That could have been done without trouble or risk, and with profit to the master. ἐγὼ, apparently intended...
Matthew 25:24-30....
_Parable of the Talents_ (_cf._ Luke 19:11-28), according to Weiss (Mt.-Ev., 535) and Wendt (L. J., i., 145) not a _Parusia_ -parable originally, but spoken at some other time, and inculcating, like t...
BY FAITHFULNESS WIN REWARD Matthew 25:14-30 We are not only guests, but servants, who must give an account of their stewardship. Each bond slave has been entrusted with at least one talent. The numbe...
"Then." This gives us the time in which the Kingdom of Heaven will be likened unto ten virgins. That Kingdom passes through many phases, but just before the coming of the King this will be its charact...
Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the (e) exchangers, and [then] at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. (e) Bankers who have their shops or tables set up abroad, where...
CHAPTER 21 COMING OF THE LORD Matthew 25:1-13. _“Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be likened unto ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went out to meet the Bridegroom.”_ Throughout the Bi...
"For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. (15) And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to ano...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
Professors, during the Lord's absence, are here presented as virgins, who went out to meet the Bridegroom, and light Him to the house. In this passage He is not the Bridegroom of the church. No others...
THOU OUGHTEST THEREFORE TO HAVE PUT MY MONEY TO THE EXCHANGERS,.... "Trapezites", or "tablets", the same whom the Jews z call שולחנים, and is the same word which is here used in Munster's Hebrew Gospe...
Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and _then_ at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. Ver. 27. _Received the same with usury_] Our Saviour doth no more p...
_Thou wicked and slothful servant_ Wicked, because slothful. Observe well, reader, slothful servants are wicked servants, and will be reckoned with as such by their Master: for _he that is slothful in...
EXCHANGERS; answering nearly to our brokers or bankers. They were persons who dealt in money. USURY; interest. Lawful and proper increase was the meaning of this word when our translation of the Bibl...
THOU OUGHTEST, THEREFORE, TO HAVE PUT MY MONEY TO THE EXCHANGERS, AND THEN AT MY COMING I SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED MINE OWN WITH USURY....
The accounting of the lazy servant:...
"Then," that is, at the time when things must be brought to their proper conclusion, "shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins." These take lamps to go forth to meet the bridegroom. The...
14-30 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 Christ is in order to our working for him. The m...
Ver. 24-27. We must remember that we are in a parable, which (as other similitudes) cannot be expected in all things to agree with what it is brought to illustrate. This part of the parable doth chief...
Clementine Homily III "But if any one of those present, being able to instruct the ignorance of men, shrink from it, thinking only of his own ease, let him expect to hear this sentence: `O wicked and...
Matthew 25:27 G3767 you G4571 ought G1163 (G5713) deposited G906 (G5629) my G3450 money G694 bankers...
“But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant, you knew that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter. You ought therefore to have put my money to the...
THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS (25:14-30). In this third of three major parables on the need to be ready for His coming Jesus likens Himself to a man who goes to another country and hands over control of...
Matthew 25:27. THOU OUGHTEST THEREFORE TO HAVE PUT. Lit. ‘thrown,' _i.e.,_ thrown on the money-table, which required no exertion. MY MONEY. The trust demanded this. TO THE BANKERS; the Greek word h...
The order is chronological (comp. Mark 7:24 to Mark 8:10; especially the miracle peculiar to that Gospel). This visit of our Lord to Gentile regions followed an attack from the Pharisees. (Comp, the c...
The close connection of this parable with the last is indicated by its opening words. The time is the same, but the two can readily be distinguished: ‘The virgins were represented as _waiting_ for the...
THOU OUGHTEST THEREFORE (εδσ σε ουν). His very words of excuse convict him. It was a necessity (εδε) that he did not see.THE BANKERS (τοις τραπεζειταις). The benchers, money-changers, brokers, wh...
Matthew 25:19 The Account to be rendered. I. Is not the servant who had received least a type of the insignificant of the earth, of the immerse mass of those who are commonly called the _proletaires_...
Matthew 25:14 In the case of the unprofitable servant as it emerges in the latter portion of the parable, three points demand our attention separately and successively the Reason, the Nature, and the...
Matthew 25:14. _For the kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods._ This parable has to do with you who are professors...
CONTENTS: Parables of the wise and foolish virgins. Testing of the servants in the Lord's absence. Future testing of the Gentile nations at the Lord's return. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples. CONCL...
Matthew 25:1. _Ten virgins took their lamps to meet the bridegroom._ Homer names the like custom among the Greeks, of the bridegroom being preseded by virgins bearing lighted torches. The virgins repr...
YOU SHOULD HAVE DEPOSITED. If he had put the money in the bank, he would have at least made something. By hiding it, he even lost the interest the bank would have paid....
_Who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods._ LIFE A JOURNEY 1. There is a variety of circumstances which will attend the believer in his journey through life. 2. Moreover trave...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 25:27 YOU OUGHT TO HAVE INVESTED MY MONEY WITH THE BANKERS. Israelites were forbidden to charge interest to other Israelites (Deuteronomy 23:
Jesus teaches of the wicked tenants: Matthew 21:33-46; Mark 12:1-12 and Luke 20:9-19 Parables of Stewardship Matthew 25:14-30
1-40 CHAPTER 25 _Then_... _which went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride_ (Vulg.). _And the bride_ is not found in the Greek, nor in S. Chrysostom. It is the reading of the Latin and the Syria...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 25:14. FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, etc.—See R.V. SERVANTS.—Slaves. DELIVERED UNTO THEM HIS GOODS.—The outward framework of the parable lies in the Eastern way of dealing with p...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 25:1 _Parable of the ten virgins. _(Peculiar to St. Matthew.) This parable, as a continuation of the teaching of the last chapter, sets forth the necessity of having and retaining...
Shall we turn now to Matthew's gospel chapter twenty-five? In the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew's gospel the disciples came to Jesus and asked Him what would be the signs that would precede the des...
Deuteronomy 23:19; Deuteronomy 23:20; Jude 1:15; Luke 19:22; Luke 19
Put [β α λ ε ι ν]. Lit., throw or fling down, as one would throw a bag of coin upon the exchanger's table. Exchangers [τ ρ α π ε ζ ι τ α ι ς]. Taking their name from the table or counter at which the...