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ὁ κύριος αὐτοῦ, “EG, δοῦλε ἀγαθὲ καὶ πιστέ, ἐπὶ ὀλίγα ἧς πιστός, b here
ἐπὶ πολλῶν σε καταστήσω: εἴσελθε εἰς τὴν χαρὰν τοῦ κυρίου σου. . 22. Προσελθὼν δὲ καὶ ὁ τὰ δύο τάλαντα λαβὼν 1 etme, Κύριε, δύο. τάλαντά po παρέδωκας; ἴδε, ἄλλα δύο τάλαντα ἐκέρδησα ἐπ᾽ αὐτοῖς.ὶ 23. Ἔφη αὐτῷ 6 κύριος αὐτοῦ, Ed, δοῦλε ἀγαθὲ καὶ πιστέ, ἐπὶ ὀλίγα
and in ver,
- ~ t ἧς πιστός, ἐπὶ πολλῶν σε καταστήσω: εἴσελθε εἰς τὴν χαρὰν τοῦ | Ch. xvi.
κυρίου σου.
24. Προσελθὼν δὲ καὶ ὁ τὸ ἓν τάλαντον εἰληφὼς εἶπε, Κύριε, ἔγνων σε ὅτι ' σκληρὸς εἶ ἄνθρωπος, θερίζων ὅπου οὐκ ἔσπειρας, καὶ συνάγων ὅθεν οὐ } διεσκόρπισας' 25. καὶ φοβηθείς, ἀπελθὼν έκρυψα τὸ τάλαντόν σου ἐν τῇ yh° ἴδε, ἔχεις τὸ σόν.
3
xiv. 27 (of
a flock).
Lk. xv. 13;
xvi. 1 (of
property). k here and
> 26. “Atro-* jo Ῥομι,
\ ας , > ag ἴψ. 2A κ) a \k> 2 xii. 11. κριθεὶς δὲ ο κυριος αυτου ειπεν αυτω; Πονηρε δοῦλε και ΟΚΝΊΡΕ, | here only.
δεις ὅτι θερίζω ὅπου οὐκ ἔσπειρα, καὶ συνάγω, ὅθεν οὗ διεσκόρπισα - 27. ἔδει οὖν σε” βαλεῖν τὸ ἀργύριον ὃ µου τοῖς ᾿τραπε[ίταις: καὶ ἐλθὼν ἐγὼ "' ἐκομισάμην ἂν τὸ ἐμὸν σὺν ” τόκω.
1 ABCLAE omit λαβων.
2 ge ovy in ΝΒΟΙ, 33.
ceeds from the evangelist interpreting the parable allegorically of Messiah’s re- turn. But we escape this inference if we take the phrase “the joy of thy lord ”’ as=the joy of lordship (herilis gaudi, Grotius, and Elsner after him). The faithful slave is to be rewarded by ad- mission to fellowship in possession, part- nership. Cf. péroxot τοῦ χριστοῦ in Heb. tii. 14=sharers (‘fellows ’’) with Christ, not merely ‘‘ partakers of Christ”. —Ver. 23. Praise and recompense awarded to the second servant in identi- cal terms: reward the same in recogni- tion of equal devotion and fidelity with unequal ability a just law of the King- dom of God, the second law bearing on ‘‘ Work and Wages’’ there. For the first, vide on xx. 1-16. Euthymius re- marks toy ἢ τιμὴ διότι καὶ ton ἡ σπουδή.
Vv. 24-30.—Ver. 24. εἰληφώς, the perfect participle, instead of λαβὼν in ver. 20, because the one fact as to him is that he is the man who has received a talent of which he has made no use. (So Weiss in Meyer.)—€yvwv σε ὅτι, for ἔγνων ὅτι ov, by attraction.—oxAnpos, ‘‘hard”’; grasping, ungenerous, taking all to himself, offering no inducements to his servants, as explained in the pro- verbial expressions following: θερίζων, etc., reaping where you do not sow, and gathering where (ὅθεν instead of ὅπου, a word signifying de loco, instead of a word signifying in loco; vide Kypke for -other examples) you did not scatter
SD have it. {wanting in BDL) at the end of ver. 22.
m Heb. xi Ig (in same sense).
28. ἄρατε οὖν ἀπ᾿ © Lk. xix.23.
Probably a gloss, as is also ew αυτοις
Στα αργνρια in NB.
with the fan = appropriating everything produced on his land by the labour of his servants, without giving them any share —no inducement to work for such a curmudgeon of a master: all toil, no pay. Compare this with the real char- acter as revealed in: ‘‘ Enter thou into the joy oflordship ”.—Ver. 25. φοβηθεὶς, etc., fearing: loss of the talent by trade; he thought the one thing to make sure of, in the case of such a master, was that what he had got might be safe.— ἐν τῇ Yq: the primitive bank of security. Vide xili. 44.—U5e ἔχεις τὸ σόν, see you have what belongs to you; no idea that the master was entitled not only to the talent, but to what it might earn.— Ver. 26. wovnpé (vide on vi. 23), ‘“‘wicked” is too general a meaning: mean-spirited or grudging would suit the connection better. —2ovnpos is the fitting reply to σκληρὸς, and the opposite of ἀγαθὸς. You call me hard, I call you a churl: with no heart for your work, un- like your fellow-servant who put his whole heart into his work.—éxvnpé, slothful ; a poor creature altogether: suspicious, timid, heartless, spiritless, idle.—jSets, etc.: a question, neither making an admission nor expressing surprise or anger, but leading up to a charge of inconsistency = If that was your idea of me, why then, etc.—Ver. 27. ἔδει, etc., you ought in that case to have cast my silver to the money-changers, or bankers. That could have been done without