Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O you wicked servant, I forgave you all that debt, because you desired me:
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Theophylact of Ochrid
AD 1107
The master in his love for mankind takes issue with the servant, to show that it is not the master, but the savagery and the ingratitude of the servant that has revoked the gift. To what tormentors does he deliver him? To the punitive powers for eternal punishment. For the meaning of till he should pay all his debt is this: "let him be punished till he should pay all that was due." But he will never be able to pay his debt, and therefore his punishment will never end.
