not for being so dishonest but for being so clever, so astute, so shrewd. In other words, for “feathering his nest,” seeing to it that his physical needs would be supplied for a long time to come, perhaps for the rest of his life. At this point a question arises. In verse 8, to whom does the expression kurios (master, lord) refer? Is the reference to the owner or to the Lord Jesus Christ? The answer must be “to the owner” of this huge landed estate. The Greek word kurios occurs also in verses 3 (once)