Matthew 25:26-27 26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: 27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. “Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not”... In repeating the servant’s charge against him, the master was not acknowledging that it was true. He was allowing the man’s own words to condemn him. If the servant really believed the master to be the kind of man he portrayed, that was all the more reason for him not to be slothful. His accusation against the master – even if it had been true – did not justify his own laziness. “The exchangers”... Were persons who were in the habit of borrowing money, or receiving it on deposit at a low rate of interest, to be loaned to others at higher interest. They commonly sat by tables in the temple, with money ready to exchange or loan (see Matthew 21:12). This money was left with the servant, not to exchange, nor to increase it by any such idle means, but by honest industry and merchandise. But since he was too indolent for that, he ought at least to have loaned it to the exchangers, that his master might have received some benefit from it. “With usury”... With interest, increase, or gain. The word usury, in our language, has a bad signification, meaning unlawful or exorbitant interest. This was contrary to the law, Exodus 22:25; Leviticus 25:36. The original means gain, increase, or lawful interest.
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