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Question 276: What Is The Lesson Of The Parable Of The Talents?

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The parable in Matthew 25 was given to explain the principle of the judgment from one who had been well endowed much would be expected and a smaller result would be looked for from one who had received less. Only he would be punished who had made no effort to turn his talents to account Moshiach probably intended it to apply to every kind of gift Men of wealth, of education, of spiritual privilege, with any kind of opportunity for doing good, were affected by it. A man must do the best he could in his circumstances and if he could not do as well or as much as, another who was better equipped, he would not be blamed. The distinction between worldly and spiritual is somewhat vague in this instance. The man who gives to a starving family is not exactly doing spiritual work, but it is the kind of work that this parable would apply to.