Luke 16:1-7 The clever agent

Peter Eyland epe at phys.unsw.edu.au
Wed Feb 10 22:27:03 EST 1999




Luke 16:1  "There was a rich man who had an agent,
and hOUTOS DIEBLHQH AUTW hWS DIASKORPIZWN 
TA hUPARCONTA AUTOU 
DoesnÕt DIEBLHQH suggest false information i.e. slander?
Hence Òhe was slandered that he was squandering [the rich manÕs] 
goods.Ó
Then v2 would mean the owner took it at face value and promptly 
dismissed him without seeing the evidence.

Luke 16: 5, 6 POSON OFEILEIS TWi KURIWi MOU ... DEXAI SOU TA 
GRAMMATA KAI KAQISAS TACEWS GRAYON ...
Does this necessarily imply that there was an old written IOU or could 
it be as it sounds that the agent had bad management accounting and 
genuinely did not know the amount?  In this case he told them to take 
pen and paper and settled for what he could from an otherwise bad 
debt situation. 

Assuming both of these things, the agent was a bad financial manager 
who when faced with a crisis, was shocked into getting the best for the 
owner, himself and the debtors, i.e. a win-win-win situation!

V9 POIHSATE FILOUS  ... HINA hOTAN EKLIPHi DEXWNTAI hUMAS 
EIS TAS AIWNIOUS SKHNAS
Does this mean that there are _friends_ whom you can pay money to in 
this age and they will guarrantee your reception in the next age?
Is not  _eternal tents_ an oxymoron?

Thanks for your comments
Peter

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