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1And He also said to His disciples,
There was a certain rich man who had a steward. And he was accused to him, that
he had wasted his goods.
2And he called him and said to him, What is this I hear
about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you may no longer be steward.
3And the steward said within himself, What shall I do?
For my lord is taking the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.
4I know what I will do, so that when I am put out of the
stewardship they may receive me into their houses.
5So he called every one of his lord's debtors and said; to
the first, How much do you owe my lord?
6And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said to him,
Take your bill and sit down quickly and write fifty.
7And he said to another, And how much do you owe? And he
said, A hundred measures of wheat. And he said to him, Take your bill and write eighty.
8And the unjust steward's lord commended him because he had
done wisely. For the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the
children of light. MKJV |
- Note: the steward did not even know of the amounts that his
lord's debtors owed.
- The lord was able to commend the steward because the lord did not view his
treasure as being within his money or his goods. Personal greed did not
govern the lord's decision, however the master did not turn a blind side to
his stewards embezzlement either, since he could no longer remain the master's
steward.
- The lord had more concern for his steward, than he had for the loss of his
money. For the steward (most likely for the first time)
was putting money to work for himself, thinking about his future instead of just
squandering what he had. The Lord commended him for this, rather than looking at
the further lost of his revenue.
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