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Homily 61
Complete historical editorial footnotes. These notes retain the original edition’s wording; individual note authors are unspecified.
English translation and editorial credits: Sir George Prevost, M. B. Riddle.
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[οδ γρο occurs here in the Greek, but is ignored by the translator; probably because the thought was implied in “husbandry” (γεωργαν).—R.]
Editorial footnote · Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew, Homily 61, editorial note cite_note-15 · Original source
But these things I say, not blaming crafts, nor husbandry, nor military service,but ourselves. Since Cornelius also was a centurion, and Paul a worker in leather, and after his preaching practised his craft, and David was a king, and Job enjoyed the possession of land and of large revenues, and there was no hindrance hereby to any of these in the way of virtue.
[“The lord of that servant,” according to our authorities; the Homily varies.—R.]
Editorial footnote · Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew, Homily 61, editorial note cite_note-16 · Original source
What then saith the other? “Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. And his Lordwas moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.”
[R.V., “make a reckoning.”]
Editorial footnote · Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew, Homily 61, editorial note cite_note-3 · Original source
Wherefore also He went on to say, “The Kingdom of Heaven is likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. But forasmuch as he had not to pay,he commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and his children, and all that he had.”
[R.V., “wherewith to pay.”]
Editorial footnote · Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew, Homily 61, editorial note cite_note-4 · Original source
Wherefore also He went on to say, “The Kingdom of Heaven is likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. But forasmuch as he had not to pay,he commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and his children, and all that he had.”
[ἐπιτρπων, “stewards,” answering here to “overseers,” in the worst sense.—R.]
Editorial footnote · Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew, Homily 61, editorial note cite_note-12 · Original source
having labored throughout the whole winter, and being consumed with frost and rain, and watchings, they go away with their hands empty, yea moreover in debt, and fearing and dreading more that this famine and shipwreck, the torments of the overlookers,and their dragging them about, and their demands, and their imprisonments, and the services from which no entreaty can deliver them!
[R.V., “besoughtest.”]
Editorial footnote · Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew, Homily 61, editorial note cite_note-21 · Original source
What then saith their lord? “O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredstme; shouldest not thou also have had compassion, even as I had pity on thee?”