even receive back his own original investment but instead yields it to the first slave.18 Probably, this is a further example of “reversal of expectation” (see on v. 10) that demonstrates the bountiful grace of God in rewarding the faithful slave. Note that the first slave was given all “ten talents,” both the original amount of the master and all the profit he had earned (by extension that was also the case with the second slave). This would never have happened in this world and relates entirely