[B-Greek] Talanton in Matthew 25

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Sat Apr 30 13:16:01 EDT 2005


The greek word refers to the amount of silver or gold that a single man 
could carry by himself.  Later it came to refer to a rather large sum of 
money.  It has nothing whatsoever to do with our word "talent".

Jim


Larry Baker wrote:

>The Greek word, talanton, in Matthew 25 must signify
>something other than our English word, talent, and be
>something of great value that could be multiplied with
>rewards or ignored at one's eternal peril.
>
-- 
Jim West

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