⁴¹And Peter said to him, ‘Sir, unto us this simile dost thou speak, or also unto all?’ ⁴²And the Lord said, ‘Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure? ⁴³Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so; ⁴⁴truly I say to you, that over all his goods he will set him.

⁴⁵‘And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken; ⁴⁶the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for him, and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint.

⁴⁷‘And that servant, who having known his lord’s will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes, ⁴⁸and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.

Read in Logos

Public Domain.