Matthew 25:27

27 thou oughtest therfore to have had my money to ye chaugers and then at my comynge shulde I have receaved myne awne with vauntage.

Matthew 25:27 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 25:27

Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the
exchangers
"Trapezites", or "tablets", the same whom the Jews

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 call (Mynxlwv) , and is the same word which is here used in Munster's Hebrew Gospel; who were so called from the table that stood before them, on which they told, and paid their money, and the exchange and use: hence all the Oriental versions here read, "thou shouldest have put my money to, or on the table"; put it into the hand of these bankers, where it would have been not only safe, as in the earth, where it was hid, but also would have made some increase, and would have been returned with profit;

and then at my coming I should have received my own with usury:
this is said not so much to encourage usury, though it may be lawful; and it seems to have been a practice in those times to put money out to use upon a reasonable interest; but to reprove the sloth and inactivity of this servant, upon his own reasonings, and the character he had given of his master.

F26 Maimon. Hilch. Shekalim, c. 1. sect. 9. & c. 2. sect. 1.

Matthew 25:27 In-Context

25 and was therfore afrayde and went and hyd thy talent in ye erth: Beholde thou hast thyn awne.

26 His master answered and sayde vnto him: thou evyll servaut and slewthfull thou knewest yt I repe where I sowed not and gaddre where I strawed not:

27 thou oughtest therfore to have had my money to ye chaugers and then at my comynge shulde I have receaved myne awne with vauntage.

28 Take therfore the talent from him and geve it vnto him which hath .x. talentes.

29 For vnto every man that hath shalbe geven and he shall have aboundance: and from him that hath not shalbe taken awaye even that he hath.