ten thousand talents Even if silver talents are meant, the sum is enormous at least two million pounds of our money. It was probably more than the whole annual revenue of Palestine at this time; see Joseph. Ant.xii. 4, 4. The modern kingdoms of Norway or Greece or Denmark hardly produce a larger national income.
The vast sum implies the hopeless character of the debt of sin.
Verse Matthew 18:24. _TEN THOUSAND TALENTS_] μυριων ταλαντων, a myriad of talents, the highest number known in Greek arithmetical notation. An immense sum, which, if the _silver_ talent be designed,...
TEN THOUSAND TALENTS - A talent was a sum of money, or weight of silver or gold amounting to three thousand shekels. A silver shekel was worth, after the captivity, not far from half a dollar of our m...
6. INSTRUCTIONS TO HIS DISCIPLES. CONCERNING FORGIVENESS. CHAPTER 18 1. Concerning the Little Ones and Offences. (Matthew 18:1 .) 2. The Son of Man to Save What is Lost. (Matthew 18:11 .) 3. The Chu...
THE DUTY OF FORGIVENESS ILLUSTRATED BY THE PARABLE OF THE UNGRATEFUL SERVANT. With Matthew 18:21 _ cf._ Luke 17:4, which makes repentance a condition. The Rabbis taught (_Yoma,_ 86_ b)_ that one must...
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS (Matthew 18:1-35) Matthew 18:1-35 is a most important chapter for Christian Ethics, because it deals with those qualities which should characterize the personal relationships o...
Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" Jesus said to him, "I tell you not up to seven times, but up to seventy times s...
TO RECKON. to compare accounts, as in Matthew 18:23. See note above. ONE... -WHICH OWED. one debtor. Found in Sophocles and Plato as well as the _Papyri,_ though said to be only Biblical. TALENTS. S...
ΜΥΡΊΩΝ ΤΑΛΆΝΤΩΝ. Even if silver talents are meant, the sum is enormous—at least two million pounds of our money. It was probably more than the whole annual revenue of Palestine at this time; see Josep...
FORGIVENESS OF SINS Luke 17:3-4 God’s forgiveness of sinners suggests the duty of forgiveness among men....
Ver 23. "Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. 24. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten tho...
_THE HEART OF A CHRISTIAN IS CHARACTERIZED BY FORGIVENESS MATTHEW 18:21-35:_ Jesus taught us just to keep on forgiving (seventy times seven). (Matthew 18:22) Are we like the man that owed several mill...
ΆΡΞΑΜΈΝΟΥ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (temp.) от_ ΆΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G757) начинать, с _inf. Gen. abs._ ΣΥΝΑΙΡΕΊΝ _praes. act. inf., см._ Matthew 18:23. _Inf._ используется как дополнение к _part._ ΠΡΟΣΗΝΈΧΘΗ _aor...
ONE WAS BROUGHT UNTO HIM, &C.— When the king began to inspect the accounts of his servants, one was brought unto him, probably his steward or treasurer,—who had so abused the eminent station in which...
B. JESUS ANSWERS: NO LIMIT: MERCIFULNESS IS THE RULE IN GOD'S KINGDOM! (18:22-35) Matthew 18:22 JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, I SAY NOT UNTO THEE, UNTIL SEVEN TIMES; BUT, UNTIL SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN. On another...
Section 46 JESUS TRAINS THE TWELVE IN PERSONAL RELATIONS (Parallels: Mark 9:33-50; Luke 9:46-50) TEXT: 18:1-35 A. Humility and True Greatness 1 In that hour came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Wh...
And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. AND WHEN HE HAD BEGUN TO RECKON, ONE WAS BROUGHT UNTO HIM, WHICH OWED HIM TEN THOUSAND TALENTS. If A...
16 See Deu_19:15; Joh_8:17; 2Co_3:1. 18 See Mat_16:19. 19 The Lord continues in the same vein. If we should attempt to apply these privileges and promises now it would only bring reproach on His name...
OFFENDING THE LITTLE ONES. THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT 1-14. Ambition reproved, and humility taught by the example of a little child (Mark 9:33; Luke 9:46)....
THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT (peculiar to St. Matthew). The lesson is that, inasmuch as God has forgiven us the great and unpayable debt which as sinners we owe to Him, so we also must forgive our brethren...
TEN THOUSAND TALENTS] An enormous sum (£2,500,000 of our money, if the Attic silver talent of £240 is meant, and still more if the Hebrew silver talent of £410, or gold talent of £6,150, is meant), in...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 18 Chapter 18 is the fourth section of what Jesus taught. It ends in the same way as the other sections ‘Now when Jesus had finished...
TEN THOUSAND TALENTS. — It is hardly necessary to discuss in detail the value in modern coinage of the sum thus described. Assuming the Greek “talent” to have been rightly used by the LXX. translators...
εἷς : _one_ stood out above all the rest for the magnitude of his debt, who, therefore, becomes the subject of the story. ὀφειλέτης μ. τ.: a debtor of, or to the extent of, a thousand talents an immen...
_Parable of unmerciful servant_....
FORGIVEN YET UNFORGIVING Matthew 18:21-35 _Seventy times seven_ is illimitable forgiveness. These numbers denote the perfection of perfection; and if God asks so much of _us,_ what is _He_ not prepa...
What a sad state of heart prompted this question! How absolutely opposed to the whole genius of the Master's teaching and example! He replied by an act, and a statement growing out of that act. The ch...
And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him (m) ten thousand talents. (m) Here is set down a very great sum of six thousand crowns, that the difference may be the greate...
_Ten thousand talents. It is put as an example for an immense sum. It is not certainly agreed what was the value of a talent. A talent of gold is said to be 4900 lb.; of silver 375 lb. See Walton's Pr...
FORGIVING ONE ANOTHER Matthew 18:21-35. _“Then Peter, coming to Him, said, Lord, how frequently shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? until seven times? Jesus says to him, I do not say u...
"Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? (22) Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until sev...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
In chapter 18 the great principles proper to the new order of things are made known to the disciples. Let us search a little into these sweet and precious instructions of the Lord. They may be looked...
AND WHEN HE HAD BEGUN TO RECKON,.... To open the book of conscience, and to bring to account by some awakening providence, and strong conviction: one was brought unto him; whether he would or no, thro...
And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. Ver. 24. _Which owed him ten thousand talents_] A talent is said to be 600 crowns; 10,000 talents are w...
_One was brought who owed him ten thousand talents_ That is, according to the lowest computation, about two millions sterling. But it is probable, as the Prussian editors say, that the _ten thousand t...
TEN THOUSAND TALENTS; an immense sum, which he could never pay....
AND WHEN HE HAD BEGUN TO RECKON, ONE WAS BROUGHT UNTO HIM WHICH OWED HIM TEN THOUSAND TALENTS....
The staggering debt:...
Though the Lord Jesus has been seen to forego His own rights, He who is by right infinitely great, the disciples show the opposite attitude in desiring some rights above those of others in the kingdom...
TALENTS: a talent is 750 ounces of silver, which after five shillings the ounce is 187.Leviticus 10.s....
21-35 Though we live wholly on mercy and forgiveness, we are backward to forgive the offences of our brethren. This parable shows how much provocation God has from his family on earth, and how untowa...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 18:35"....
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIV And compare the words, "And when he began to makea reckoning,"[86]...
Matthew 18:24 And G1161 he G846 begun G756 (G5671) accounts G4868 (G5721) one G1520 brought G4374 ...
“And when he had begun to call them to account, one was brought to him, who owed him ten thousand talents (that is in our terms ‘many billions').” One servant was brought before Him whose debt was so...
Matthew 18:24. BUT WHEN HE HAD BEGUN. With one foremost among the servants. TEN THOUSAND TALENTS = £ 2, 437, 500, $ 11, 700, 000, if we understand Attic talents of silver. The Syrian talent was much...
Matthew 18:1-14 forbade offences _against_ the humble. This section teaches how the humble should deal with offences: (1.) as regards the Christian assembly (Matthew 18:15-20); (2.) as regards his own...
TEN THOUSAND TALENTS (μυριων ταλαντων). A talent was 6,000 denarii or about a thousand dollars or 240 pounds. Ten thousand times this is about ten or twelve million dollars, an enormous sum for that...
Matthew 18:23 The Unmerciful Servant. The key-notes of this parable are to be found at the beginning and end. It was spoken in order to show that a man should set no limit to the forgiveness of injuri...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the child text. Discipline in the church. Unity in prayer. Law of forgiveness. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Peter. CONCLUSION: Those are truly great who are truly humble and good, and...
Matthew 18:1. _Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?_ The comparative μειζων _greater,_ is put here for the superlative. By the kingdom of heaven, they meant the worldly glory of the church in...
WHEN ONE OF THEM WAS BROUGHT IN. Notice he was _brought in!_ His accounts were short millions of dollars. [Remember this is a parable.] The debt is beyond human ability to pay....
_Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants._ THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT I. That we are all God’s debtors. Debt in the New Testament is a co...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 18:1 The Community of the Messiah Revealed. This is the fourth of Jesus’ five major teachings in Matthew’s Gospel (see Introduction: Key Themes). Jesus instructs his disciples...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 18:24 TEN THOUSAND TALENTS. In NT times, a talent was a unit of monetary reckoning valued at about 6,000 drachmas, the equivalent of about 20 years’ wages for a laborer. Hence,...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 18:22. UNTIL SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN.—That is, as often as there is a cause—a certain number is put for an uncertain (_John Wesley_). Matthew 18:24. TEN THOUSAND TALENTS.—The tal...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 18:1 _Discourse concerning the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, and the mutual duties of Christians_._ _(Mark 9:33; Luke 9:46-42.)...
Now at the same time there came disciples to Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? (Matthew 18:1) Oh, boy how they longed for this. You're talking about motivation, and the disc...
1 Chronicles 29:7; Ezra 9:6; Luke 13:4; Luke 16:5; Luke 16:7;...
Which owed him [ο φ ε ι λ ε τ η ς]. Lit., a debtor of ten thousand talents. Ten thousand talents. An enormous sum; about twelve millions of dollars....
GOD'S FORGIVENESS FOR SINS Matthew 6:14; _Matthew 18:21_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The question which the words of our first text propound, is, Is forgiveness conditional? In answering this query we would...
One was brought who owed him ten thousand talents — According to the usual computation, if these were talents of gold, this would amount to seventy — two millions sterling. If they were talents of sil...