Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
The tormentors (toiv basanistaiv). Not to prison simply, but to terrible punishment. The papyri give various instances of the verb basanizw, to torture, used of slaves and others. "Livy (ii. 23) pictures an old centurion complaining that he was taken by his creditor, not into servitude, but to a workhouse and torture, and showing his back scarred with fresh wounds" (Vincent).
Till he should pay all ( ewv ou apodw pan). Just as in verse Matthew 18:30, his very words. But this is not purgatorial, but punitive, for he could never pay back that vast debt.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 18:34:
Luke 13:4
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