The Parables of Jesus the Galilean: Stories of a Social Prophet (Matrix: The Bible in Mediterranean Context) by Ernest van Eck

Author:Ernest van Eck [van Eck, Ernest]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781498233712
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2016-08-23T04:00:00+00:00

728. In Augustine’s interpretation of the parable, the debt of the two servants is seen as sins against the law, the debtor’s wife and his children represent excessive desire and works of the law, and the greater and lesser debtors represent the Jews and Gentiles. Wailes, Medieval Allegories, 132–37. The forgiveness of the king, in his reading, refers to baptism, which gives every sinner a new beginning (Sermon XXXII). According to Chrysostom (Hom. Matt. LXII), the contrast between the ten thousand talents and hundred denarii refers to sins against God and sins against man. In Bede’s (673–735 CE) interpretation, the Unmerciful Servant represents the Jews, who, although they were subject to the Decalogue, were guilty of many transgressions. Some modern scholars also tend to read the parable allegorically. Drury, for example, interprets the king as a reference to God, the servants as referring to two kinds of sinners, and the debt as sin. Drury, Parables in the Gospels, 92. Keach, as a final example, understands the vast debt of the Unmerciful Servant as a reference to the great evil that resides in humaniry when compared to God’s holiness. Keach, Exposition of the Parables, 451.

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