Robertson's Word Pictures of the NT
Matthew 25:30
The unprofitable
(τον αχρειον). Useless (α privative and χρειος, useful) and so unprofitable, injurious. Doing nothing is doing harm.
The unprofitable
(τον αχρειον). Useless (α privative and χρειος, useful) and so unprofitable, injurious. Doing nothing is doing harm.
Verse 30. _WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH._] Matthew 8:12, Matthew 8:12, a note necessary for the illustration of this, and the foregoing parable....
AND CAST ... - See the notes at Matthew 8:12. The spiritual meaning of the parable may be thus summed up: * The servants of God are not all endowed with equal gifts and talents. * All, whatever ma...
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)...
OUTER. the outer. Greek. _exoteros._ Occurs only in Matthew (here, Matthew 8:12, and Matthew 22:13). WEEPING AND GNASHING. See note on Matthew 8:12....
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...
The Day of Judgment 32. _all nations_ Either (1) all the nations of the world, including the Jews; or (2) all the Gentiles. The almost invariable use of τὰ ἔθνη to signify the Gentiles; the unconsciou...
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...
ΑΧΡΕΊΟΣ (G888) бесполезный, негодный. ΈΚΒΆΛΕΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΈΚΒΆΛΛΩ (G1544) выбрасывать, ΕΞΏΤΕΡΟΣ (G1857) внешний, только форма _сотр._ (_см._ Matthew 8:12). Мораль притчи — надо быть покорн...
AND CAST YE THE UNPROFITABLE SERVANT, &C.— This punishment must have been greatly embittered to him by the happier lot of his fellow-servants, who were highly applauded for their diligence, and gladde...
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 cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. AND CAST YE - `cast ye out' [ ekballete (G1544), but the true reading is ekbalete (G1544)]....
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...
WEEPING] RV 'the weeping.' The penalty is not merely exclusion, as in the case of the foolish virgins, but punishment, in addition....
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...
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...
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...
CAST YE THE UNPROFITABLE SERVANT... — We have had so far the special punishment of sloth, but it is not complete without the solemn and emphatic recurrence of the “darkness” and “gnashing of teeth.”...
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...
Matthew 25:24-30....
ἀχρεῖον, useless. Palairet renders _injuriosum_; Kypke, _improbum_. Being useless, he was both injurious and unjust. The useless man does wrong all round, and there is no place for him either in this...
_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 the unprofitable servant. Thus not only the rapacious, the unjust, and evil doers, but also all those who neglect to do good, are punished with the greatest severity. Let Christians listen to thes...
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...
_NO NEUTRALITY_ ‘Cast ye the unprofitable servant.… gnashing of teeth.’ Matthew 25:30 The Advent warning, contained in parable of unprofitable servant, is directed against the sin of despised oppor...
30._And cast the unprofitable servant into outer darkness. _We have also explained, (695) under Matthew 8:12, that _outer darkness _is contrasted with the light which is within the house; (696) for, a...
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 CAST YE THE UNPROFITABLE SERVANT,.... All the servants of Christ are unprofitable with respect to God; for no man can be profitable to him, as he that is wise may be profitable to himself, or othe...
And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Ver. 30. _And cast ye the unprofitable servant_] Αχρειος, useless. That had his soul for salt o...
_And cast ye the unprofitable servant_ Who has so wickedly abused my goodness; _into outer darkness_ The darkness which is without the heavenly city, even the horrible darkness of hell. _There_, inste...
AND CAST YE THE UNPROFITABLE SERVANT INTO OUTER DARKNESS; THERE SHALL BE WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH. The whining, disagreeable wretch of a servant is excellently portrayed. Slinking forward, he bro...
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. 28-30. God often in this life deprives men and women of those gifts which he hath given them, and they do not make use of for the glory of his name, and the good of their and others souls, the gr...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I And the third department of counsel consists of what is future, by which we are bidden guard against what is to happen; as also that was said, "They that f...
Matthew 25:30 And G2532 cast G1544 (G5720) unprofitable G888 servant G1401 into G1519 outer G1857 darkness G4655 T
“And cast you out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.” These words are left until the end so as to bring out their emphasis. This wa...
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...
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...
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...
Matthew 25:30. Comp. chap. Matthew 8:12; Matthew 22:13. An obvious allusion to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, so that this and the preceding parable must refer to the same point in the future. In Lu...
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...
THROW HIM OUTSIDE IN THE DARKNESS. This implies total separation from God for those who refuse to love him and do his will (see Matthew 7:21-23)....
_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 25:30 OUTER DARKNESS... WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH. See note on 8:11–12. ⇐
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...
2 Peter 2:17; Ezekiel 15:2; Hebrews 6:7; Hebrews 6:8; Jeremiah 15:1;...
Cast ye the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness — For what? what had he done? It is true he had not done good. But neither is he charged with doing any harm. Why, for this reason, for barely...