5So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
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There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. …
And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-18)We mistake if we imagine that the design of Christ’s doctrine and holy religion was either to amuse us with notions of divine mysteries or to entertain us with notions of divine mercies. No, the divine revelation of both these in the gospel is intended to engage and quicken us to the practice of Christian duties, and, as much as any one thing, to the duty of beneficence and doing good to those who…
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