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Text -- Matthew 25:26 (NET)

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25:26 But his master answered, ‘Evil and lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I didn’t sow and gather where I didn’t scatter?
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Robertson: Mat 25:26 - -- Thou wicked and slothful servant ( ponēre doule kai oknēre ). From ponos (work, annoyance, disturbance, evil) and okneō (to be slow, "poky,...

Thou wicked and slothful servant ( ponēre doule kai oknēre ).

From ponos (work, annoyance, disturbance, evil) and okneō (to be slow, "poky,"slothful). Westcott and Hort make a question out of this reply to the end of Mat 25:26. It is sarcasm.

Vincent: Mat 25:26 - -- Slothful With no more trouble than he expended in digging, he might have gone to the exchangers. The verse should be read interrogatively, Didst...

Slothful

With no more trouble than he expended in digging, he might have gone to the exchangers. The verse should be read interrogatively, Didst thou indeed know this of me ? Thou shouldst then have acted with time promptness and care which one observes in dealing with a hard master. To omit the interrogation is to make the Lord admit that he was a hard master.

Wesley: Mat 25:26 - -- That I require impossibilities! This is not an allowing, but a strong denial of the charge.

That I require impossibilities! This is not an allowing, but a strong denial of the charge.

TSK: Mat 25:26 - -- Thou : Mat 18:32; Job 15:5, Job 15:6

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Barnes: Mat 25:26 - -- Slothful - Indolent, lazy, who had done nothing. God will judge people not merely for doing wrong, but for not "doing"right. See Mat 25:45. Tha...

Slothful - Indolent, lazy, who had done nothing. God will judge people not merely for doing wrong, but for not "doing"right. See Mat 25:45. That servant was "wicked,"because he had such an opinion of his master; he had shown that he was slothful by not making good use of the talent, Mat 25:27.

Thou knewest ... - This should be understood, and might have been translated, as a question. If you knew that I was Such a man you ought to have acted accordingly, so as to have escaped punishment. Didst thou know that I reap, etc.? Then thou shouldst have given my money to the exchangers, etc. This is not intended to "admit"that he was such a man, but to convict the slothful servant of guilt and folly in not having been prepared to meet him.

Poole: Mat 25:24-27 - -- Ver. 24-27. We must remember that we are in a parable, which (as other similitudes) cannot be expected in all things to agree with what it is brought...

Ver. 24-27. We must remember that we are in a parable, which (as other similitudes) cannot be expected in all things to agree with what it is brought to illustrate. This part of the parable doth chiefly instruct us in these two things:

1. That it is the genius of wicked men to lay the blame of their miscarriages upon others, oft times upon God himself. The unprofitable servant here pretends that the dread of his lord, as a severe man, was that which kept him from labouring, and making an improvement of the talent with which his master had intrusted him. Thus many think that if there be an election of grace, or any thing of special and distinguishing grace, and man hath not a perfect power in his own will, he shall have something to excuse himself by before God hereafter, for his not repenting, and believing God in such a case, condemning men for unbelief and impenitency, should reap where he did not sow, and gather where he did not straw.

2. Men in their excuses which they fancy, instead of excusing will but accuse and condemn themselves. The lord of the unprofitable servant tells him that the fault lay in his own sloth and wickedness, and his dread of his lord’ s security was but a mere frivolous pretence and unreasonable excuse; for if he had dreaded any such thing, he would have done what he could, he would have put out his money to the exchangers, and then he should have received his own with increase.

And shall not God as justly another day reply upon those who think to excuse their lewd and wicked lives, their impenitency and unbelief, from their not being elected, not having a power of themselves to repent and believe, nor receiving his efficacious grace. O you wicked and slothful wretches! Did you suspect or fear you were not elected? Why then did you not give all diligence to make your calling and election sure? Do you plead the want of power in your own wills to repent and believe, and that I did not give you a special, effectual grace? But had you not a power to keep from the taverns and alehouses? To keep from lying, and cursing, and swearing, and open profanation of my sabbaths? Had not you a power to read, to hear, to pray? If you had to your utmost used the talents I gave you, and I had been warning in my further necessary influences of grace, you might indeed have said something; but when you made no use of the talents you had, why should I trust you with more? Faith comes by reading, hearing, praying; you had a power to these things, these talents you had. Why did you not read, hear, pray, that you might believe? If you took me to be so severe a master, why did not you do what was in your power to do, that you might find me otherwise? If you had done what lay in your power to do, in the use of those talents which I gave you for that end, you might then have blamed me if I had not given you more; but you never tried my kindness in such a case. So that you are not ruined by any severity of mine, but by your own sloth, neglect, and wickedness. Thus much this parable teacheth us, that God in the recompences at the last day of judgment will be found just, and sinners will all be found liars, and their damnation will be of themselves.

Haydock: Mat 25:26 - -- Thou evil and slothful servant, for thus calumniating thy master; if I wish to reap where I have not sown, how ought you to fear my just indignation,...

Thou evil and slothful servant, for thus calumniating thy master; if I wish to reap where I have not sown, how ought you to fear my just indignation, if were I have sown I find nothing by your neglect to reap. Thus our Lord retorts the accusation upon the servant, as in Luke xix. 22. Out of thy own mouth I judge thee, thou wicked servant.

Gill: Mat 25:26 - -- His Lord answered and said unto him,.... Resenting, as he well might, not only his indolence and sloth, his neglect of his duty, and his worldly dispo...

His Lord answered and said unto him,.... Resenting, as he well might, not only his indolence and sloth, his neglect of his duty, and his worldly disposition, but the abusive character he had given of him, in order to cover his own wickedness:

thou wicked and slothful servant; a very just character of him: he was a "wicked" servant; all men in a state of nature are wicked; they lie in wickedness, and are under the power of the wicked one; and there are many wicked men among professors of religion, and many wicked ministers, who, though not openly profane, yet either trusting to their works, or doing the work of the Lord deceitfully, or wholly neglecting it, justly merit this character. This man's wickedness lay in his slothfulness, in not doing the good he might, and had gifts and abilities for; and in entertaining wrong thoughts of, and in bringing false charges against his Lord: and he might be truly said to be "slothful"; since he took no pains to improve in spiritual knowledge; and instead of digging for that, as for silver and hid treasure, dug in the earth, and hid his talent there: he neglected the gift that was in him; did not stir it up, or study to show himself a workman that needeth not to be ashamed; did not give himself up to reading, meditation, and prayer; but trusted to, and depended on what other men had done; stole away his neighbour's words, reaped that for which he had not laboured, and entered into the labours of others; and being afraid of difficulties, indulged himself in ease and pleasure, served his own belly, and not the Lord Jesus; he gratified his worldly lusts, and had no regard to his master's interest,

Thou knowest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: not granting that he was such an one, and that his servant knew him to be such, and had given a true character of him; but supposing he was such a person he had wickedly represented him to be; he turns the argument upon him, that therefore he must needs know, that he expected to have had his money improved, and to have received it with an increase; and that upon such a consideration he ought to have been the more diligent and industrious, in using and improving his talent, and not to have indulged sloth, and idleness; and thus he convicts, judges, and condemns him, as a wicked, slothful servant, by his own words.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Mat 25:26 Grk “But answering, his master said to him.” This is somewhat redundant and has been simplified in the translation.

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Mat 25:1-46 - --1 The parable of the ten virgins,14 and of the talents.31 Also the description of the last judgment.

Maclaren: Mat 25:14-30 - --Traders For The Master For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his ...

MHCC: Mat 25:14-30 - --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 Chris...

Matthew Henry: Mat 25:14-30 - -- We have here the parable of the talents committed to three servants; this implies that we are in a state of work and business, as the former impli...

Barclay: Mat 25:14-30 - --Like the preceding one this parable had an immediate lesson for those who heard it for the first time, and a whole series of permanent lessons for us...

Constable: Mat 19:3--26:1 - --VI. The official presentation and rejection of the King 19:3--25:46 This section of the Gospel continues Jesus' ...

Constable: Mat 24:1--25:46 - --E. The King's revelations concerning the future chs. 24-25 We now come to the fifth and final major disc...

Constable: Mat 24:32--25:31 - --6. The responsibilities of the disciples 24:32-25:30 Next Jesus exhorted His disciples on the ba...

Constable: Mat 24:45--25:31 - --The importance of prudence and faithfulness 24:45-25:30 Jesus continued instructing His ...

Constable: Mat 25:14-30 - --The parable of the talents 25:14-30 The other important quality that will make a servant blessed when Jesus returns, in addition to prudence, is faith...

College: Mat 25:1-46 - --MATTHEW 25 The Ten Virgins (25:1-13) 1" At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the br...

McGarvey: Mat 25:1-46 - -- CXV. CONCLUSION OF OUR LORD'S DISCOURSE. PARABLES OF VIRGINS AND TALENTS. THE FINAL JUDGMENT. (Mount of Olives. Tuesday, April 4, A. D. 30.) aMATT. X...

Lapide: Mat 25:1-40 - --1-40 CHAPTER 25 Then . . . which went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride (Vulg.) . And the bride is not found in the Greek, nor in S. Chry...

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Introduction / Outline

Robertson: Matthew (Book Introduction) THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW By Way of Introduction The passing years do not make it any plainer who actually wrote our Greek Matthew. Papias r...

JFB: Matthew (Book Introduction) THE author of this Gospel was a publican or tax gatherer, residing at Capernaum, on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. As to his identity with t...

JFB: Matthew (Outline) GENEALOGY OF CHRIST. ( = Luke 3:23-38). (Mat. 1:1-17) BIRTH OF CHRIST. (Mat 1:18-25) VISIT OF THE MAGI TO JERUSALEM AND BETHLEHEM. (Mat 2:1-12) THE F...

TSK: Matthew (Book Introduction) Matthew, being one of the twelve apostles, and early called to the apostleship, and from the time of his call a constant attendant on our Saviour, was...

TSK: Matthew 25 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Mat 25:1, The parable of the ten virgins, Mat 25:14. and of the talents; Mat 25:31, Also the description of the last judgment.

Poole: Matthew 25 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPER 25 Mat 25:1-13 The parable of the ten virgins, Mat 25:14-30 and of the talents, which a king distributed among his servants, to be improve...

MHCC: Matthew (Book Introduction) Matthew, surnamed Levi, before his conversion was a publican, or tax-gatherer under the Romans at Capernaum. He is generally allowed to have written h...

MHCC: Matthew 25 (Chapter Introduction) (Mat 25:1-13) The parable of the ten virgins. (v. 14-30) The parable of the talents. (v. 31-46) The judgment.

Matthew Henry: Matthew (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Gospel According to St. Matthew We have now before us, I. The New Testament of our Lord and Savior...

Matthew Henry: Matthew 25 (Chapter Introduction) This chapter continues and concludes our Saviour's discourse, which began in the foregoing chapter, concerning his second coming and the end of the...

Barclay: Matthew (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAINT MATTHEW The Synoptic Gospels Matthew, Mark and Luke are usually known as the Synoptic Gospels. Synopt...

Barclay: Matthew 25 (Chapter Introduction) The Fate Of The Unprepared (Mat_25:1-13) The Condemnation Of The Buried Talent (Mat_25:14-30) God's Standard Of Judgment (Mat_25:31-46)

Constable: Matthew (Book Introduction) Introduction The Synoptic Problem The synoptic problem is intrinsic to all study of th...

Constable: Matthew (Outline) Outline I. The introduction of the King 1:1-4:11 A. The King's genealogy 1:1-17 ...

Constable: Matthew Matthew Bibliography Abbott-Smith, G. A. A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament. Edinburgh: T. & T. Cl...

Haydock: Matthew (Book Introduction) THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW INTRODUCTION. THIS and other titles, with the names of those that wrote the Gospels,...

Gill: Matthew (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO MATTHEW The subject of this book, and indeed of all the writings of the New Testament, is the Gospel. The Greek word ευαγγελ...

College: Matthew (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION It may surprise the modern reader to realize that for the first two centuries of the Christian era, Matthew's...

College: Matthew (Outline) OUTLINE I. ESTABLISHING THE IDENTITY AND ROLE OF JESUS THE CHRIST - Matt 1:1-4:16 A. Genealogy of Jesus - 1:1-17 B. The Annunciation to Joseph...

Lapide: Matthew (Book Introduction) PREFACE. —————— IN presenting to the reader the Second Volume [Matt X to XXI] of this Translation of the great work of Cornelius à Lapi...

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