> It is considered a good work to run a business and employ people, to put them to useful work, and to pay them a fair wage so that they may raise a family.
Unfortunately that parable is about slaves, unfair retribution, and "But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.". Maybe means something entirely different in the Talmud.
I don't go to church, but I went to a wealthy demographic service to help a friend and that parable was mentioned - weird money-oriented Anglican service.
To me, it's a allegory for the soul. The talent is the soul. The gift given to you by God. The servants all started with the same gift. Some servants used that gift to lift up the other souls around them, presumably out of despair and into the light. The other decided that he should hide his gift and only think for himself.
It's God's commandment to put your life to the purpose of bettering others. Merely showing up to Heaven with only your own soul to account for is not what he wants.
Unfortunately that parable is about slaves, unfair retribution, and "But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.". Maybe means something entirely different in the Talmud.
I don't go to church, but I went to a wealthy demographic service to help a friend and that parable was mentioned - weird money-oriented Anglican service.