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Scott's Reference Library
Matthew 25:14 through Matthew 25:30 (NIV)
14“Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants
and entrusted his property to them. 15To one he gave five talents of money, to
another two talents, and to another one talent, each according to his ability.
Then he went on his journey. 16The man who had received the five talents went at
once and put his money to work and gained five more. 17So also, the one with the
two talents gained two more. 18But the man who had received the one talent went
off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.
19“After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts
with them. 20The man who had received the five talents brought the other five.
‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five
more.’
21“His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been
faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and
share your master’s happiness!’
22“The man with the two talents also came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me
with two talents; see, I have gained two more.’
23“His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been
faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and
share your master’s happiness!’
24“Then the man who had received the one talent came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew
that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where
you have not scattered seed. 25So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent
in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’
26“His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest
where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? 27Well then,
you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I
returned I would have received it back with interest.
28“‘Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents.
29For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance.
Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 30And throw that
worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and
gnashing of teeth.’
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 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 manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal. The day of account comes at last. We must all be reckoned
with as to what good we have got to our own souls, and have done to others, by
the advantages we have enjoyed. It is not meant that the improving of natural
powers can entitle a man to Divine grace. It is the real Christian’s liberty and
privilege to be employed as his Redeemer’s servant, in promoting his glory, and
the good of his people: the love of Christ constrains him to live no longer to
himself, but to Him that died for him, and rose again. Those who think it
impossible to please God, and in vain to serve him, will do nothing to purpose
in religion. They complain that He requires of them more than they are capable
of, and punishes them for what they cannot help. Whatever they may pretend, the
fact is, they dislike the character and work of the Lord. The slothful servant
is sentenced to be deprived of his talent. This may be applied to the blessings
of this life; but rather to the means of grace. Those who know not the day of
their visitation, shall have the things that belong to their peace hid from
their eyes. His doom is, to be cast into outer darkness. It is a usual way of
expressing the miseries of the damned in hell. Here, as in what was said to the
faithful servants, our Saviour goes out of the parable into the thing intended
by it, and this serves as a key to the whole. Let us not envy sinners, or covet
any of their perishing possessions.
See also Matthew 24:45-51