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SLOTHFUL - Indolent, lazy, who had done nothing. God will judge people
not merely for doing wrong, but for not “doing” right. See Matthew
25:45. That servant was “wicked,” because he had such an opini...
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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...
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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...
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THE FATE OF THE UNPREPARED (Matthew 25:1-13)...
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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...
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WICKED. Greek. _poneros._ App-128.
THOU KNEWEST. Greek. _oida._ App-132....
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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...
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ἬΙΔΕΙΣ ὍΤΙ … ΔΙΕΣΚΌΡΠΙΣΑ; ‘Thou knewest that
I was,’ &c.? It is an interrogation _ex concesso_. The Lord does not
admit the truth of this description, but judges the slave from his own
standpoint. Eve...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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ΟΚΝΗΡΈ _voc. sing. от_ ΟΚΝΗΡΌΣ (G3636)
праздный, ленивый, остерегающийся или
колеблющийся, неспособный заняться
ничем полезным, возможно,
недостаточно амбициозный (LN, 1:769).
ΉΔΕΙΣ _plperf. ind. act...
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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...
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His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful
servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where
I have not strawed:
HIS LORD ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, THOU WIC...
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1 The parable of the ten virgins applies only to the kingdom at the
time specified. When the
Lord comes in glory to enter into covenant relationship with Israel at
the commencement of the day of Jehov...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THOU WICKED AND SLOTHFUL SERVANT. — The words of the master pierce
below the false excuse, and reveal the faults which had eaten like a
canker into the man’s heart and soul....
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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...
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Matthew 25:24-30....
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_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...
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πονηρὲ (_vide_ on Matthew 6:23), wicked” is too general a
meaning: mean-spirited or grudging would suit the connection better.
πονηρὸς is the fitting reply to σκληρὸς, and the
opposite of ἀγαθὸς. You...
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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...
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"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...
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_Thou evil and slothful servant, for thus calumniating thy master; if
I wish to reap where I have not sown, how ought you to fear my just
indignation, if were I have sown I find nothing by your neglec...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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HIS LORD ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM,.... Resenting, as he well might,
not only his indolence and sloth, his neglect of his duty, and his
worldly disposition, but the abusive character he had given of...
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His lord answered and said unto him, _Thou_ wicked and slothful
servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where
I have not strawed:
Ver. 26. _Thou wicked and slothful servant_]...
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THOU KNEWEST; this may be taken as an argument out of the servant's
own mouth: Didst thou know? Then thou oughtest, etc....
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HIS LORD ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, THOU WICKED AND SLOTHFUL SERVANT,
THOU KNEWEST THAT I REAP WHERE I SOWED NOT, AND GATHER WHERE I HAVE
NOT STREWED....
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The accounting of the lazy servant:...
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"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...
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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...
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SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 25:27"....
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Matthew 25:26 But G1161 his G846 lord G2962 answered G611 (G5679) said
G2036 (G5627) him G846 wicked...
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“But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and slothful
servant, you knew that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I
did not scatter. You ought therefore to have put my money to the...
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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...
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Matthew 25:26. WICKED because SLOTHFUL. Neglect is also wickedness.
KNEWEST THOU. A question. Granting that this were the case; comp.
Luke 19:22: ‘Out of thine own mouth will I condemn thee.'...
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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...
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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...
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THOU WICKED AND SLOTHFUL SERVANT
(πονηρε δουλε κα οκνηρε). From πονος (work,
annoyance, disturbance, evil) and οκνεω (to be slow, "poky,"
slothful). Westcott and Hort make a question out of this re...
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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_...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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YOU BAD AND LAZY SERVANT. Not only unfaithful, but insulting. Compare
Jude 1:14-16....
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_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...
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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
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Job 15:5; Job 15:6; Matthew 18:32...
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Slothful. With no more trouble than he expended in digging, he might
have gone to the exchangers. The verse should be read interrogatively,
Didst thou indeed know this of me? Thou shouldst then have a...
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Thou knewest — That I require impossibilities! This is not an
allowing, but a strong denial of the charge....