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10. The
Man Who Owed Many Talents.
Next we must speak in regard to this, “And when
he had begun to reckon, there was brought unto him one which owed many
talents.”6104
The sense of
this appears to me to be as follows: The season of beginning the
judgment is with the house of God, who says, as also it is written in
Ezekiel, to those who are appointed to attend to punishments,
“Begin ye with My saints;”6105
and it is like “the twinkling of an eye;” but, the time of
making a reckoning includes the same “twinkling,” ideally
apprehended, for we are not forgetful of what has been previously said
of those who owe more. Wherefore it is not written, when he was
making reckoning, but it is said, “When he began to
reckon,” there was brought, at the beginning of his making a
reckoning, one who owed many talents; he had lost tens of thousands of
talents, having been entrusted with great things, and having had many
things committed to his care, but he had brought no gain to his master,
but had lost tens of thousands so that he owed many talents; and,
perhaps on this account, he owed many talents, seeing that he followed
often the woman, who was sitting upon the talent of lead, whose name is
wickedness.6106
But observe
here that every great sin is a loss of the talents of the master of the
house, and such sins are committed by fornicators, adulterers, abusers
of themselves with men, effeminate, idolaters, murderers. Perhaps
then the one who is brought to the king owing many talents has
committed no small sin but all that are great and heinous; and if you
were to seek for him among men, perhaps you would find him to be
“the man of sin, the son of perdition, he that opposeth and
exalteth himself against every God or object of
worship;”6107
but if you seek him
outside the number of men, who can this be but the devil who has ruined
so many who received him, who wrought sin in them. For “man
is a great thing, and a pitiful man is precious,”6108
precious so as to be worthy of a talent,
whether of gold like as the lamp which was equal to a talent of gold,6109
or
of silver or of any kind of material whatsoever understood
intellectually, the symbols of which are recorded in the Words of the
Days,6110
when David became enriched with many talents
of which the number is mentioned, so many talents of gold, and so many
of silver, and of the rest of the material there named, from which the
temple of God was built.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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