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could not pay him, for he did not forget that his debt also
had been forgiven when he could not pay it. And God
blessed him with long life, with many children and with
much riches, because he was kind to all his servants and to
all his cattle."
Then Jesus turned to the sick folk and said: "I speak to you
in parables that you may better understand God's word.
The seven years of eating and drinking and of riotous living
are the sins of the past. The wicked creditor is Satan. The
debts are diseases. The heavy labour is pains. The prodigal
son, he is yourselves. The payment of the debts is the casting
from you of devils and diseases, and the healing of your
body. The bag of silver received from the father is the liberating
power of the angels. The father is God. The father's possessions
are earth and heaven. The servants of the father are
the angels. The father's field is the world, which is changed
into the kingdom of the heavens, if the Sons of Man work
thereon together with the angels of the Heavenly Father. For
I tell you, it is better that the son should obey his father and
keep watch over his father's servants in the field, than that
he should become the debtor of the wicked creditor and toil
and sweat in serfdom to repay all his debts. it is better, likewise,
if the Sons of Man also obey the laws of their Heavenly
Father, and work together with his angels upon his kingdom,
than that they should become the debtors of Satan, the
lord of death, of all sins and all diseases, and that they
should suffer with pains and sweat till they have repaid all
their sins. I tell you truly, great and many are your sins.
Many years have you yielded to the enticings of Satan. You
have been gluttonous, wine-bibbers and gone a-whoring,
and your past debts have multiplied. And now you must repay
them, and payment is difficult and hard. Be not, there-
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