AN EXPOSITION OF THE PARABLES AND OF OTHER PARTS OF THE GOSPELS, BY EDWARD GRESWELL, B. D. FELLOW OF C. C. C. OXFORD. IN FIVE VOLUMES. VOL. IV. OXFORD: PRINTED BY S. COLLINGWOOD, printer to THE UNIVERSITY, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON. MDCCCXXXV. PARABLE EIGHTEENTH. MORAL. THE UNJUST STEWARD. LUKE XVI. 1–13. HARMONY, P. IV. 43. LUKE XVI. 1–13. 1 He said moreover to his disciples also: "There was a cer"tain rich man, who had a steward; and this steward was ac"cused unto him, as dissipating his possessions. 2 And he 46 66 called him and said unto him, What is this which I hear con"cerning thee? render the account of thy stewardship; for "thou shalt not have it in thy power to be steward any longer. " 3 And the steward began to say in himself, What shall I do? " for my lord is taking the stewardship from me: to dig I have "not strength, to beg I am ashamed. 4 I have concluded, "what I shall do; that when I have been removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. 5 And "having called to him each one of the debtors of his own lord, "he said to the first, How much dost thou owe to my lord? "6 And he said, An hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, "Take thy writing, and having sat down, write quickly fifty. "7 Then he said to another, And thou, how much owest thou? "And he said, An hundred cors of wheat. And he saith to him, Take thy writing, and write eighty. 8 And his lord "commended the steward of injustice, because he did prudently for the children of this world are more prudent for "their own generation, than the children of light. 66 "9 And I say unto you, Make friends for yourselves of the mammon of injustice, that when ye fail, they may receive into the everlasting tabernacles. 10 He who is trusty in you |