Matthew 25:25

Matthew 25:25

23 His lord said to him, ^a‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into ^bthe joy of your lord.’

24 “Then he who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed.

25 And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.’

26 “But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You ^awicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed.

27 So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest.

28 Therefore take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents.

29 ^a‘For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

30 And cast the unprofitable servant ^ainto the outer darkness. ^bThere will be weeping and ^cgnashing of teeth.’

The Son of Man Will Judge the Nations

31 ^a“When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the¹ holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.

32 ^aAll the nations will be gathered before Him, and ^bHe will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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And I was afraid—of making matters worse by meddling with it at all.

and went and hid thy talent in the earth—This depicts the conduct of all those who shut up their gifts from the active service of Christ, without actually prostituting them to unworthy uses. Fitly, therefore, may it, at least, comprehend those, to whom TRENCH refers, who, in the early Church, pleaded that they had enough to do with their own souls, and were afraid of losing them in trying to save others; and so, instead of being the salt of the earth, thought rather of keeping their own saltness by withdrawing sometimes into caves and wildernesses, from all those active ministries of love by which they might have served their brethren.

Thou wicked and slothful servant—"Wicked" or "bad" means "falsehearted," as opposed to the others, who are emphatically styled "good servants." The addition of "slothful" is to mark the precise nature of his wickedness: it consisted, it seems, not in his doing anything against, but simply nothing for his master.

Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed—He takes the servant's own account of his demands, as expressing graphically enough, not the hardness which he had basely imputed to him, but simply his demand of a profitable return for the gift entrusted.

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Matthew 25:25:**

Luke 19:15-26
1 Corinthians 16:2
1 Timothy 4:14

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