Matthew 18:28

ἕνα τ. συνδούλων ἀ.: a fellow -slave though a humble one, which he should have remembered, but did not. ἑκατὸν δηνάρια : some fifty shillings; an utterly insignificant debt, which, coming out from the presence of a king, who had remitted so much to him, he should not even have remembered, far less been in the mood to exact. κρατήσας α. ἔπνιγε : seizing, he choked, throttled him, after the brutal manner allowed by ancient custom, and even by Roman law. The act foretokens merciless treatment: no remission of debt to be looked for in this quarter. ἀπόδος εἴ τι ὀφ. In the εἴ τι some ingenious commentators (Fritzsche, e.g.) have discovered Greek urbanity! (“Non sine urbanitate Graeci a conditionis vinculo aptarunt, quod a nulla conditione suspensum sit.”) Weiss comes nearer the truth when he sees in it an expression of “merciless logic”. He will have payment of whatever is due, were it only a penny.