https://aleteia.org/2023/11/16/video-a-staggering-fortune-and-the-servants-odd-way-of-using-it/
I can't get the video, but you can by clicking on the link. I'm posting this take on Matt: 25:14-30 because I came across a different and unusual look at this parable.
The Master is a crook. Matt 25: 24
I knew you were a demanding person, harvesting where you did not plant and gathering where you did not scatter...
Jesus is saying the Master is not an honest person. Also, the amount of money he gives to his servants is incomprehensible. Who does that!
Anyway, the servants, imitating their master, extort, or rob, or whatever, increase the amount of money their Master gave them and are praised for it. Because they are like their Master, dishonest.
The only honest man in the bunch is the accused lazy servant. He was given a certain amount of money and returned the exact amount he was given.
Imagine the activities of the first and second servants. They were praised because they were like their boss. But the third servant was prudent to a fault and he was punished for it. Since this parable is supposed to be about the parousia, perhaps the message is not to sit around waiting. We have to keep working for the Second Coming. What else could be the message?
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