Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Then, in order that you may see in another way also the justice of the sentence, He first praises them that have done right.
For that they may not say, we had it not, He condemns them by their fellow-servants; like as the virgins by the virgins, and the servant that was drunken and gluttonous by the faithful servant, and him that buried his talent, by them that brought the two, and each one of them that continue in sin, by them that have done right.
And this comparison is sometimes made in the case of an equal, as here, and in the instance of the virgins, sometimes of him that has advantage, as when he said, The men of Nineveh shall rise up and shall condemn this generation, because they believed at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here; and, The queen of the south shall condemn this generation, because she came to hear the wisdom of Solomon; Matthew 12:41-42 and of an equal again, They shall be your judges; Matthew 12:27 and again of one at advantage, Do you not know, that we shall judge angels, how much more things that pertain to this life? 1 Corinthians 6:3
