Luke 16:3 (WEB)
“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.
Catechism · 1
“A Christian is a steward of the Lord's goods.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 16:1, 3.
Fathers and councils · 9
Augustine of Hippo
“Hereupon, lest the other should be put to straits, saying, “Dig I cannot, to beg I am ashamed,” he adjoined, “The husbandman that laboreth must be first partaker of the fruits:” according to that which he had said to the Corinthians, “Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges?” — editor's note: Luke xvi. 3. [See R.V.]
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
Having rebuked in three parables those who murmured because He received penitents, our Saviour shortly after subjoins a fourth and a fifth on almsgiving and frugality, because it is also the fittest order in…
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There is a certain erroneous opinion inherent in mankind, which increases evil and lessens good. It is the feeling that all the good things we possess in the course of our life we possess as lords over them, and…
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The bailiff is the manager of the farm, therefore he takes his name from the farm. But the steward, or director of the household, (villicus œconomus) is the overseer of money as well as fruits, and of every thing his…
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From this we learn then, that we are not ourselves the masters, but rather the stewards of the property of others.
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Next, that when we exercise not the management of our wealth according to our Lord’s pleasure, but abuse our trust to our own pleasures, we are guilty stewards. Hence it follows, And he was accused to him.
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Meanwhile he is taken and thrust out of his stewardship; for it follows, And he called him, and said unto him, What is this that I hear of thee? give an account of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer…
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A cadus in Greek is a vessel containing three urns. It follows, And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty, forgiving him the half. It follows, Then said he to another, And how much…
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Or because out of the hundred measures of oil, he caused fifty to be written down by the debtors, and of the hundred measures of wheat, fourscore, the meaning thereof is this, that those things which every Jew…
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Catechism §952.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 16.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 16.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 16.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 16.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 16.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 16.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 16.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 16.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 16.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 16.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 16.
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Luke 16:1–7 (2) (Catena Aurea).