Wherefore, then, didst thou not place my silver upon a money-changer’s table, and, I, when I came, with interest might have exacted it?
It was binding on thee, therefore, to cast my silver into the money-changers,—and, I, when I, came, might have obtained what was mine, with interest.
He saith to him—Out of thy mouth, do I judge thee, O wicked servant! Thou knewest that, I, a harsh man, am,—taking up, what I laid not down, and reaping, what I did not sow;
And, unto the by-standers, he said—Take, from him, the mina, and give unto him that hath, the ten minas;—