Notes, practical and expository, on the gospels Volume 1; for the use of Bible classes, Sunday school teachers, catechists and other pious laymen - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...never answer Him for our-sins. % Ten thousand talenls. A round number is used to give us the idea of the hopelessness of payment. If the Hebrew talent is here meant, the sum is enormous. The sum in silver was over 15,000,000 dollars. If reckoned in gold, it was beyond all possibility of children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. 26 The servant therefore fell down and 'worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. 27 Then the lord of that servant I Or besouoht him. payment. We may form some idea of the amount, by comparing other sums spoken of in Scripture. In the tabernacle 29 talents of gold were used (Ex. xxxviii. 24); for the temple David prepared 3000 of gold, the princes 5000. 1 Chron. xxix. 4-7. The queen of Sheba gave Solomon 120 talents (1 Kings x. 10); Hezekiah was taxed 30 talents of gold (2 Kings xviii. 14), and finally the land was taxed one talent of gold. 2 Chron. xxxvi. 3. Darius offered to buy off Alexander from entering his kingdom, with ten thousand talents: and the latter, in paying his army at Suza, used twice the sum. The defaulter was then some chief person, who had kept back and expended on himself the revenues of his province, instead of sending them to the king. Now, the sum has exceeded all possibility of payment. This huge debt is the likeness of our sins, which no power of ours can ever pay. Kom. ii. 5. 22. To be sold, &c. The Jewish law and customs allowed the selling of insolvent debtors into a mild state of domestic slavery. Lev. xxv. 39, 41; 2 Kings iv. 1. Or the king may have been a Gentile ruler, and this slavery may have been a state of harsh and cruel bondage. 26. And worshipped him. " This formal act of worship or adoration, consisted in prostration on the ground, and ...
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