The thought conveyed by this verse is true, even in worldly matters: talents not used pass away from their possessor: and the strenuous worker seems to gather to himself what is lost by the idle. Demosthenes says (Philippians 1:5) "the possessions of the negligent belong of right to those who will endure toil and danger."
Verse 29. _UNTO EVERY ONE THAT HATH SHALL BE GIVEN_] Matthew 13:12, Matthew 13:12....
FOR UNTO EVERY ONE THAT HATH SHALL BE GIVEN - See the notes at Matthew 13:12. This seems to be a proverbial expression. It means, whosoever rightly improves what is committed to him shall receive more...
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...
NOT. Greek. _me._ App-105. Not the same word as in verses: Matthew 25:9; Matthew 25:12; Matthew 25:24; Matthew 9:26, Mat 9:43, Mat 9:44, Ma
The thought conveyed by this verse is true, even in worldly matters: talents not used pass away from their possessor: and the strenuous worker seems to gather to himself what is lost by the idle. Demo...
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...
ΔΟΘΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать, ΠΕΡΙΣΣΕΥΘΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass. от_ ΠΕΡΙΣΣΕΎΩ (G4052) изобиловать, иметь в изобилии, приумножать, ΈΧΟΝΤΟΣ _praes. act. part. gen. sing. от_ ΈΧ...
TAKE THEREFORE THE TALENT FROM HIM— Thus Christ will strip graceless persons, whether ministers or people, of all the good things he bestowed upon them; and will confer signal blessings on them who ar...
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...
For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. FOR UNTO EVERYONE THAT HATH SHALL BE GIVEN ... See...
29 See Mat_13:12; Luk_:8:18; Joh_15:2. 31 See Mat_19:28; Mar_8:38. 31 The many judgments in the Scriptures should be carefully distinguished as to time and place and participants and the attending ci...
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...
FOR UNTO EVERY ONE] see Matthew 13:12. It is a law of the natural as well as of the spiritual world, that the disuse of a faculty finally leads to its complete loss, whereas the due use of it leads to...
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 EVERY ONE THAT HATH. — The meaning and practical working of the law thus stated have been sufficiently illustrated in the Note on Matthew 25:28. What is noteworthy here is the extreme generality...
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...
eneral principle on which the direction rests pointing to a law of life, hard but inexorable....
_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...
Matthew 25:24-30....
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...
To every one that hath, &c. That is, who hath, so as to have made good use of, or to have improved, what was committed to his trust and management. See the notes Matthew xiii, ver. 12. (Witham) --- Wh...
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...
_THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE_ ‘Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.’ Matthew 25:29 The words of t...
29._To every one that hath shall be given _has been explained (694) under Matthew 13:12...
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...
FOR UNTO EVERYONE THAT HATH SHALL BE GIVEN,.... This seems to be a frequent saying of Christ's, or a common maxim of his, which he made use of on different occasions; Matthew 13:12, and accords with s...
For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. Ver. 29. _But from him that hath not shall be, &c._]...
_Take therefore the talent from him_ Ye angels, the ministers of my will, take from him the blessing which he has thus abused, and _give it unto him which hath ten talents_ As a further token of my ac...
EVERY ONE THAT HATH; a disposition to rightly use the blessings which God gives, is a preparation for more and greater blessings. THAT HATH NOT; he that hath not this disposition, when God calls him...
FOR UNTO EVERY ONE THAT HATH SHALL BE GIVEN, AND HE SHALL HAVE ABUNDANCE; BUT FROM HIM THAT HATH NOT SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY EVEN THAT WHICH HE HATH....
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...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 25:30"....
Origen de Principiis Book II irst with a light pencil to trace out the outlines of the coming picture, and prepare marks for the reception of the features that are to be afterwards added, this prelimi...
Matthew 25:29 For G1063 everyone G3956 has G2192 (G5723) given G1325 (G5701) and G2532 abundance G4052 ...
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...
“For to every one who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.” And thus was fulfilled the proverb that to those who ‘have', becaus...
Matthew 25:29. FOR UNTO EVERY ONE THAT HATH SHALL BE GIVEN. The expression is well-nigh proverbial. Comp. chap. Matthew 13:12, where it is applied to spiritual knowledge (through parables); here it re...
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...
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 25:29 Talents improved are multiplied; talents misimproved are resumed by their owner. Apply this principle of the Divine government: (1) To personal endowments; (2) to providential advantage...
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...
FOR TO EVERYONE WHO HAS. This is a general law of life. Every opportunity used, brings further opportunity. Every opportunity unused, is a step backwards. "Wealth protects the rich man; poverty destro...
_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 25:29 TO EVERYONE WHO HAS WILL MORE BE GIVEN. Using one’s God-given abilities wisely and productively is an important part of discipleship. Faithfulness will be rewarded with m...
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...
Hosea 2:9; John 11:48; John 15:2; Lamentations 2:6; Luke 10:42;...
To every one that hath shall he given — So close does God keep to this stated rule, from the beginning to the end of the world. Matthew 13:12....