tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079461116492986819.post3097246523892760545..comments2024-02-26T18:15:13.441+08:00Comments on the homilia of a budding NT scholar: TEE Course: Parables of Jesus - Part 3: The Parable of An Inculpatory Servant and A Gracious MasterKar Yonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08085356536248608342noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079461116492986819.post-74007989510402518722008-09-05T11:46:00.000+08:002008-09-05T11:46:00.000+08:00Hi Alex,Thanks for your input. Very interesting co...Hi Alex,<BR/>Thanks for your input. Very interesting comments. I particularly like how you read this in our own context.Kar Yonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08085356536248608342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079461116492986819.post-15156816515595699672008-09-03T18:50:00.000+08:002008-09-03T18:50:00.000+08:00Interesting.In our culture..(1) the servant will p...Interesting.<BR/><BR/>In our culture..<BR/>(1) the servant will probably not engage a lawyer but get the help of a Tai Kor to threaten the master,<BR/><BR/>(2) the master would have made a police report, the servant arrested and released on bail, and remain free as his trial is repeatedly postponed by his lawyer<BR/><BR/>(3) the master should have changed the combination to his safe after the first theft.<BR/><BR/>Moral of the parable?<BR/><BR/><B>Beware of shameless people who will bite the hand that feeds them</B>Alex Tanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04003300678212296112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079461116492986819.post-26078003500703353912008-09-03T09:20:00.000+08:002008-09-03T09:20:00.000+08:00Hi Sze Zeng,Well...that's what parables are meant ...Hi Sze Zeng,<BR/><BR/>Well...that's what parables are meant to be! We see how ridiculous we can be at times...Kar Yonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08085356536248608342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079461116492986819.post-63195398117238449972008-08-29T10:54:00.000+08:002008-08-29T10:54:00.000+08:00A good one. As I read it, I was confronted by the ...A good one. <BR/><BR/>As I read it, I was confronted by the fact of how ridiculous the servant is.... it dawn on me that sometimes I can be that ridiculous too...SATheologieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03776516716731379132noreply@blogger.com