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Mat<strong>the</strong>w XVIII. 27-35. 593<br />

for all. Also all demands which he had against o<strong>the</strong>rs, it is not<br />

now for liim but for God to enforce against <strong>the</strong>m, <strong>the</strong> God to whom<br />

it is not too much to remit 10,000 talents !] This hard-hearted<br />

servant, whose feelings <strong>the</strong> graciousness of <strong>the</strong> king failed to soften,<br />

permits himself to inflict even hodily violence <strong>on</strong> his debtor, which<br />

<strong>the</strong> custom of antiquity allowed him to do. (<strong>The</strong> verb Kpareiv is not<br />

ple<strong>on</strong>astic, it is <strong>the</strong> necessary antecedent of -nviyeLv = a>%«v. In<br />

ver. 28, <strong>the</strong> reading el ti d(peiXeig is to be preferred to 8 n. This last<br />

plainly betrays its real nature as a correcti<strong>on</strong> of <strong>the</strong> el rt, which is<br />

not to be understood as implying that <strong>the</strong> debt is in any way<br />

doubtful, but merely as a courteous mode of expressi<strong>on</strong>. <strong>The</strong><br />

formula eoog ov dnodu) to 6

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