Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
1 Chronicles 22:14
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 501, footnote 2 (Image)
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The Man Who Owed Many Talents. (HTML)
... himself against every God or object of worship;” but if you seek him outside the number of men, who can this be but the devil who has ruined so many who received him, who wrought sin in them. For “man is a great thing, and a pitiful man is precious,” precious so as to be worthy of a talent, whether of gold like as the lamp which was equal to a talent of gold, or of silver or of any kind of material whatsoever understood intellectually, the symbols of which are recorded in the Words of the Days,[1 Chronicles 22:14] when David became enriched with many talents of which the number is mentioned, so many talents of gold, and so many of silver, and of the rest of the material there named, from which the temple of God was built.