SEV Biblia, Chapter 17:2
¶ El siervo prudente se enseñoreará del hijo que deshonra, y entre los hermanos compartirá la herencia.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 2. A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame , etc.] That does wicked and shameful actions: that is slothful, and will not attend to instruction or business; that is prodigal, wasteful, and luxurious, and causes shame to his parents, who blush at his conduct. Now a servant that behaves well and wisely in a family is observed and respected by his master, and he puts his wicked and extravagant son under him, makes him a tutor to him, and sets him to watch over him, and obliges his son to obey his orders. Jarchi illustrates this in Nebuchadnezzar ruling over the children of Israel; and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren ; be appointed by his master’s will to a share in his estate among his children, for his faithful service to him in life, and to encourage him to take care of his family, his children, and his affairs, after his death; or through gifts in his lifetime shall have what is equal to what his sons have; or growing rich shall purchase a part of theirs, as Gussetius f481 : or “shall part the inheritance among the brethren” f482 ; being a wise man, his master shall leave him executor of his will, to divide his substance among his children, and see that everyone have their proper portion and equal share; but it rather is to be understood of his being a co-heir with them. So the Gentiles, through the will of the Lord, become fellow heirs of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ with the Jews, and share in the same inheritance with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their children; nay, when the children of the kingdom shall be shut out; (see Ephesians 3:6 Matthew 8:11,12). Jarchi gives an ancient exposition of it thus, “a proselyte of righteousness is better than a wicked native; and in time to come he shall divide the spoil and the inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel, at it is said in ( Ezekiel 47:23);” Ver. 3 . The fining pot [is] for silver, and the furnace for gold , etc.] Refiners of silver have their fining pots, in which they purify the silver from the dross; and goldsmiths have their crucibles to melt and purify their gold, by which assays of the worth and value of it may be made; but the Lord trieth the hearts ; there is no vessel, as Gersom observes, in which they can be put and tried by creatures; a man does not know, nor can he thoroughly search and try his own heart, and much less the hearts of others; God only knows and tries them, ( Jeremiah 17:9,10); The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions, render it by way of similitude, “as the fining pot is for silver”, etc. as silver is refined in the pot, and gold in the furnace, so are the hearts of God’s people, and their graces tried and purified by him in the furnace of affliction; the variety of troubles they are exercised with are made useful for the purging away of the dross of sin and corruption, and for the brightening of their graces, ( 1 Peter 1:7).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 2 - The wise servant is more deserving, and more likely to appear one of the family, than a profligate son.
Original Hebrew
עבד 5650 משׂכיל 7919 ימשׁל 4910 בבן 1121 מבישׁ 954 ובתוך 8432 אחים 251 יחלק 2505 נחלה׃ 5159
