[Footnote 8: Or, _them_.] [Footnote 9: Or, _vultures_.] [Footnote 10: Many ancient authorities read _with a great trumpet, and they shall gather &c._] [Footnote 11: Or, _a trumpet of great sound_.] [Footnote 12: Or, _it_.] [Footnote 13: Many authorities, some ancient, omit _neither the Son_.] [Footnote 14: Or, _But this ye know._] [Footnote 15: Gr. _digged through_.] [Footnote 16: Gr. _bondservant_.] [Footnote 17: Or, _severely scourge him_.] [Footnote 18: Or, _Teacher_.] [Footnote 19: Or, _put them to death_.] [Footnote 20: Some ancient authorities omit _and pray_.] [Footnote 21: Gr. _bondservants_.] [Footnote 22: Gr. you _being brought_.] [Footnote 23: Or, _shall they put to death_.] [Footnote 24: Or, _lives_.] [Footnote 25: Or, _earth_.] [Footnote 26: Or, _expiring_.] [Footnote 27: Gr. _the inhabited earth_.] |Matt. chap. 25 _Parable of | 1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto the Ten | ten virgins, which took their [1]lamps, and went Virgins._ | 2 forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were | 3 foolish, and five were wise. For the foolish, when | 4 they took their [1]lamps, took no oil with them: but | the wise took oil in their vessels with their | 5 [1]lamps. Now while the bridegroom tarried, they all | 6 slumbered and slept. But at midnight there is a cry, | Behold, the bridegroom! Come ye forth to meet him. | 7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their | 8 [1]lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give | 9 us of your oil; for our [1]lamps are going out. But | the wise answered, saying, Peradventure there will | not be enough for us and you: go ye rather to them |10 that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they | went away to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that | were ready went in with him to the marriage feast: |11 and the door was shut. Afterward, come also the |12 other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But | he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know |13 you not. Watch therefore, for ye know not the day | nor the hour. _Parable of |14 For _it is_ as _when_ a man, going into another the Talents._| country, called his own [2]servants, and delivered |15 unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five | talents, to another two, to another one; to each | according to his several ability; and he went on his |16 journey. Straightway he that received the five | talents went and traded with them, and made other |17 five talents.