Treasury of Scripture
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Luke 7:41,42 There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty...
Luke 13:4 Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them...
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Luke 16:5,7 So he called every one of his lord's debtors to him, and said to the first, How much owe you to my lord...
ten thousand. [Murias talanton,] a myriad of talents, the highest number known in Greek arithmetical notation. According to Prideaux, the Roman talent was equal to
216?; ten thousand of which would amount to
2,160,000?. If the Jewish talent of silver be designed, which is estimated by the same learned writer at
450?., this sum amounts to
4,500,000?.; but if the gold talent is meant, which is equal to
7200?., then the amount is
72,000,000?. This immense sum represents our boundless obligations to God, and our utter incapacity, as sinners infinitely indebted to Divine justice, of paying one mite out of the talent.
1 Chronicles 29:7 And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents...
Ezra 9:6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head...
Psalm 38:4 For my iniquities are gone over my head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Psalm 40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up...
Psalm 130:3,4 If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand...
talents. 'A talent is
750 ounces of silver, which after five shillings the ounce is
187?.
10s.'
