Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxiii Pg 18
Meum: Luke xvi. 12, where, however, the word is τὸ ὑμέτερον, that which is your own.”
For whatever is unrighteous ought to be foreign to the servants of God. But in what way was the Creator foreign to the Pharisees, seeing that He was the proper God of the Jewish nation? Forasmuch then as the words, “Who will entrust to you the truer riches?” and, “Who will give you that which is mine?” are only suitable to the Creator and not to mammon, He could not have uttered them as alien to the Creator, and in the interest of the rival god. He could only seem to have spoken them in this sense, if, when remarking4788 4788 Notando.
their unfaithfulness to the Creator and not to mammon, He had drawn some distinctions between the Creator (in his manner of mentioning Him) and the rival god—how that the latter would not commit his own truth to those who were unfaithful to the Creator. How then can he possibly seem to belong to another god, if He be not set forth, with the express intention of being separated4789 4789 Ad hoc ut seperatur.
from the very thing which is in question. But when the Pharisees “justified themselves before men,”4790 4790
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 16
VERSE (12) - Lu 19:13-26 1Ch 29:14-16 Job 1:21 Eze 16:16-21 Ho 2:8 Mt 25:14-29
