10. Faithful in… least… in much If we are faithful in this world’s least, we are faithful for eternity’s much. Unjust in the least… in much Our least sin is committed for eternity, and if unforgiven must result in an eternal woe proportionate to its guilt. We may, by our degrees of unrighteousness, more or less sink ourselves deeper into perdition; but the slightest unremoved condemnation is eternal. read more
10-12. In these three verses (which are the moral of the parable) the three terms, the least, the unrighteous mammon, and that which is another man’s, all mean essentially the same thing; namely, the earthly, the temporal, the finite. In contrast to each of these, separately, are the terms much, the true riches, and that which is your own; by which are meant the heavenly, the eternal, the infinite. The sentiment then given in each verse in succession is this: if we are... read more
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:1-31
THE PERAEAN MINISTRY, BETWEEN THE FEAST OF DEDICATION AND THE RETIREMENT TO EPHRAIM. Luke 13:22 to Luke 17:10. See Harmony, p. 101. Jesus went to the Feast of Dedication, John 10:22-40. After which, according to John 10:40, he went to beyond Jordan, (Peraea,) where John at first baptized, and there abode. Many, as John assures us, who had the original testimony of the Baptist, were convinced of its fulfilment in him, and became believers on him. Of this PERAEN MINISTRY Luke here gives an... read more