And he said also unto his disciples,
There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
s5,6.—How much owest thou unto my Lord? And he said, an hundred measures of oil. Greek βάτος, in the Vulgate cadus, the tenth part of an homer. Leviticus 27:16, and Ezekiel 45:2.
And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fourscore. Greek γζάμμα, i.e. "cautio" or bond, or as the Vulgate renders it "obligatio." The meaning Isaiah , "Take back thy bond, wherein thou didst acknowledge that thou owest one hundred measures of oil. Tear it up and write another, confessing to a debt of fifty only, and divide the other fifty between me and thee."
