Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
That had received the one talent (o to talenton eilhfwv). Note the perfect active participle to emphasize the fact that he still had it. In verse Matthew 25:20 we have o labwn (aorist active participle).
I knew thee (egnwn se). Second aorist active indicative. Experimental knowledge (ginwskw) and proleptical use of se.
A hard man (sklhrov). Harsh, stern, rough man, worse than austhrov in Luke 19:21, grasping and ungenerous.
Where thou didst not scatter (oqen ou dieskorpisav). But this scattering was the chaff from which wheat was winnowed, not the scattering of seed.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 25:24:
Luke 15:13
Luke 19:21
Acts 19:9
James 3:4
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