“With regard to earning interest from a bank, recall in that time there were no “banks” as there are today. The reference literally means to place the money “on a (moneylenders’) table” (compare Matt. 21:12; Mark 11:15; Luke 19:45; John 2:15). Recall also that charging interest was permissible only when Jews lent to non-Jews (e.g., Deut. 23:19–21) (Fitzmyer, 1985: 1237). At a more fundamental level, earning interest also seems to go against the Creation story, where God desires work to be inherently meaningful and for people to work as God worked. Does the desire to use money to make money reflect an attempt to avoid working by the sweat of our brow (Gen. 3:19)? In this light, perhaps it is no coincidence that the third manager had wrapped his pound inside in a soudarion (literally, “a cloth for perspiration”), which refers to a sweat cloth used for face or neck for protection from the sun (Fitzmyer, 1985: 1236; Marshall, 1978: 706). By using “money to make money” the managers in the parable were likely increasing the amount of literal and metaphorical sweat on the brows of the relatively poor.””
Quotes by G. Bruno
Management and the Gospel: Luke’s Radical Message for the First and Twenty-First Centuries
“Ce qu’il y a de plus heureux dans la richesse, c’est qu’elle permet de soulager la misère d’autrui.””
Le Tour de la France par deux enfants: Manuel de lecture scolaire pour les leçons de choses et la formation civique, géographique, scientifique, historique et morale des écoliers
“Le courage ne consiste pas à ne point être ému en face d'un danger, mais à surmonter son émotion: c'est pour cela qu'un enfant peut être aussi courageux qu'un homme.””
“Quand on a été séparé de sa patrie, on comprend mieux encore combien elle vous est chère.””
G. BrunoG. Bruno, the pseudonym of Augustine Tuillerie, was a prominent French writer whose work primarily focused on children's literature during the era of the Third Republic. Born in 1833, she dedicated he...