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1358 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke

25 Now his elder son was in the field, and when 4 I know what I will do, that when I shall be
he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard removed from the stewardship, they may receive
music and dancing: me into their houses.
26 And he called one of the servants, and 5 Therefore calling together every one of his
asked what these things meant. lord’s debtors, he said to the first: How much
27 And he said to him: Thy brother is come, dost thou owe my lord?
and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because 6 But he said: An hundred barrels of oil.
he hath received him safe. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down
28 And he was angry, and would not go in. quickly, and write fifty.
His father therefore coming out began to entreat 7 Then he said to another: And how much
him. dost thou owe? Who said: An hundred quarters
29 And he answering, said to his father: Be- of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill, and
hold, for so many years do I serve thee, and I write eighty.
have never transgressed thy commandment, and 8 And the lord commended the unjust stew-
yet thou hast never given me a kid to make merry ard, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the
with my friends: children of this world are wiser in their genera-
30 But as soon as this thy son is come, who tion than the children of light.
hath devoured his substance with harlots, thou 9 And I say to you: Make unto you friends
hast killed for him the fatted calf. of the mammon of iniquity; that when you
31 But he said to him: Son, thou art always shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting
with me, and all I have is thine. dwellings.
32 But it was fit that we should make merry 10 He that is faithful in that which is least, is
and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and faithful also in that which is greater: and he that
is come to life again; he was lost, and is found. is unjust in that which is little, is unjust also in
that which is greater.
11 If then you have not been faithful in the
Chapter 16 unjust mammon; who will trust you with that
which is the true?
And he said also to his disciples: There was a 12 And if you have not been faithful in that
certain rich man who had a steward: and the which is another’s; who will give you that which
same was accused unto him, that he had wasted is your own?
his goods. 13 No servant can serve two masters: for ei-
2 And he called him, and said to him: How ther he will hate the one, and love the other; or
is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward You cannot serve God and mammon.
no longer. 14 Now the Pharisees, who were covetous,
3 And the steward said within himself: What heard all these things: and they derided him.
shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me 15 And he said to them: You are they who
the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth
am ashamed. your hearts; for that which is high to men, is an