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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Matthew 25:25

Matthew 25:25. I was afraid. Both true and false. He had a fear of his lord's punishment, but that did not make him idle. Being afraid of God, is an excuse not a reason, for men's misimprovement of His gifts. The insolent speech shows that the servant did not really regard his master as ‘hard.'

Thou hast thine own. The interest of the money, the profit of his own time and labor, due to the lord, should have been added, before this could be true. Such a closing of accounts with God, is an eternal breach with Him.

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See also Matthew 25:25 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WAS AFRAID - I feared lest, by some accident, thy talent would be lost if I put it out to trade, and that I should be severely punished by a hard master. I therefore kept it laid up safely, and hid...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE FATE OF THE UNPREPARED (Matthew 25:1-13)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    LO, THERE. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. THAT IS THINE. thine own....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    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...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΦΟΒΗΘΕΊΣ _aor. pass. (dep.) part._ (причин.) от ΦΟΒΈΟΜΑΙ (G5399) бояться, ΣΌΝ (G4674) твое....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LO, THERE THOU HAST THAT IS THINE— Dr. Heylin renders this, _see, you have your own,_and it comes nearer to the emphatical beauty of the original, which strongly expresses the morose surly brevity of...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _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...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    Matthew 25:24-30....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Bible Study New Testament

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 25:24 MASTER, I KNEW YOU TO BE A HARD MAN. The third servant’s actions result from his misperception of his master. ⇐

  • The Gospels Compared

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  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Samuel 6:10; 2 Samuel 6:9; 2 Timothy 1:6; 2 Timothy 1:7; Isaiah 57:11

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    That is thine [τ ο σ ο ν]. The Greek is more concise, and is better given by Rev., Lo, thou hast thine own....

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And I was afraid — Lest if I had improved my talent, I should have had the more to answer for. So from this fear, one will not learn to read, another will not hear sermons!...

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