Shepherd of Hermas Commandment Third
They therefore who lie deny the Lord, and rob Him, not giving back to Him the deposit which they have received. For they received from Him a spirit free from falsehood.[3]
MATTHEW 25:15-16 avpedh,mhsen) euvqe,wj poreuqei,j {B} Although the external evidence supporting the reading adopted for the text is limited in extent, it is good in quality. More important, this rea...
Verse Matthew 25:15. _UNTO ONE HE GAVE FIVE TALENTS - TO EVERY MAN ACCORDING_ _TO HIS SEVERAL ABILITY_] The duties men are called to perform are _suited_ to their situations, and the _talents_ they r...
FIVE TALENTS - See the notes at Matthew 18:24. The word “talents” here is used to denote indefinitely “a large sum,” and is designed to refer to the endowments conferred on people. We have retained in...
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...
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...
THE FATE OF THE UNPREPARED (Matthew 25:1-13)...
TALENTS. Greek. _talanton._ Occurs only here, and in Matthew 18:24. See App-51. Hence the word comes to be used now of any gift entrusted to one for use. EVERY MAN. each one. ACCORDING TO. Greek. _k...
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...
_unto one he gave five talents_ In the parable of the Pounds or "minæ," (Luke 19) each subject receives one pound. Here the truth is indicated that there is variety in the services wrought for God in...
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...
ὯΙ ΜῈΝ ἜΔΩΚΕΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. In the parable of the Pounds or ‘minæ’ (Luke 19), each subject receives one pound. Here the truth is indicated that there is variety in the services wrought for God in respect of...
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 SERVANTS THAT USED THEIR TALENTS MATTHEW 25:14-23:_ Jesus wanted us to understand what readiness means so He taught a great lesson about two men that used the talents of money that their master h...
ΈΔΩΚΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) отдавать, ΤΆΛΑΝΤΟΝ (G5007) денежная единица, равная 6000 динариев, ценность которой варьировалась в зависимости от времени и места (Carson, 516; BAGD). Один...
UNTO ONE HE GAVE FIVE TALENTS— See the note on Matthew 25:30 and Prideaux's preface to his Connection, p. 20....
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...
And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. AND UNTO ONE HE GAVE FIVE TALENTS, TO ANOTHE...
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...
TALENTS] see on Matthew 18:24. 'It seems better to explain the five (talents) more extensively of all the gifts of God, whether called those of nature, or of grace, of condition, or opportunities, or...
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...
UNTO ONE HE GAVE FIVE TALENTS. — On the value of the talent see the Note on Matthew 18:24. The languages of modern Europe bear witness, in their use of the word, to the impression which the parable ha...
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...
πέντε, δύο, ἕν : the number of talents given in each case corresponded to the master's judgment of the capacity (δύναμιν) of each man. All were supposed to be trustworthy and more or less capable. Eve...
_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...
And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several (c) ability; and straightway took his journey. (c) According to the wisdom and skill in de...
In the parable of the talents, the master is God, talents, graces, &c. (Witham) --- From this, it appears, we can do no good of ourselves, but only by means of God's grace, though he requires our co-o...
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...
Matthew 25:15._To every one according to his own ability. _By this term Christ does not distinguish between natural gifts and the gifts of the Spirit; for we have neither power nor skill (688) which o...
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...
AND UNTO ONE HE GAVE FIVE TALENTS,.... A "talent" with the Jews, if of silver, was, according to Brerewood w, of the value of 375 l. of our money; according to Bishop Cumberland, 353 l. 11 s. 10 1/2 d...
And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. Ver. 15. _According to his several ability_] Us...
_For_, &c. To show us more clearly the nature and duty of Christian watchfulness, to which he exhorts us in the preceding verse, our Saviour immediately subjoins another parable, wherein he represents...
HIS SEVERAL ABILITY; representing the various gifts which God bestows on different individuals. All our blessings we receive from God, and to him we are justly accountable for the use of them. He does...
THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS. The talents entrusted:...
AND UNTO ONE HE GAVE FIVE TALENTS, TO ANOTHER TWO, AND TO ANOTHER ONE; TO EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS SEVERAL ABILITY; AND STRAIGHTWAY TOOK HIS JOURNEY....
"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...
TALENTS: a talent is 187. pound 10. Shillings, Matthew 18:24...
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. 14,15. There is much the same parable LUKE 19:12, but the difference is so great in the narration, and the time, and circumstances, and scope seem so different, that the best expositors think it...
Matthew 25:15 And G2532 one G3739 G3303 gave G1325 (G5656) five G4002 talents G5007 G1161 another...
“And to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his several ability, and he went on his journey.” Note that no one is expected to do more than they are capable...
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 25:15. FIVE TALENTS TWO ONE. In Luke the trust is the same for each servant. So great a sum as even a single ‘talent' (comp. chap. 18 constituted a very valuable trust. The ‘pound' (of much sm...
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...
TO ONE (ω μεν, ω δε, ω δε). Demonstrative ος, not the relative. Neat Greek idiom.ACCORDING TO HIS SEVERAL ABILITY (κατα την ιδιαν δυναμιν). According to his own ability. Each had all that he was c...
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 Unequal Gifts. At the very opening of this parable we shall encounter a thought which touches on the saddest and most irritating problem that our century has tried to solve; that of 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...
TO EACH ONE ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY. He gives them the amount of responsibility they can use, to carry out his work....
_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 25:15 TALENTS. See note on 18:24. ⇐...
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...
Luke 12:48; Luke 19:13; Luke 19:14; Matthew 18:24...
Several ability [ι δ ι α ν]. Lit., his own or peculiar capacity for business....
To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one — And who knows whether (all circumstances considered) there be a greater disproportion than this, in the talents of those who have rece...