Luke 16: 1-13

[Mendieta]

Can someone please help me understand this passage ESPECIALLY verse 9.

“Make friends for yourselves with wordly wealth”

This i can not get my head around.

Thanks for your help.
Love
Michael Ivan Mendieta

 

[ALLFORHIM]

Hi,
My study bible says that Jesus was talking about using the wealth that God gave us to help people who are in need. By becoming friends with people,by helping them, we can also lead them to Jesus Christ. Of course your motives have to be pure and that you are glorifying God and not yourself. Hope that helps.

 

[Fidelis]

Hi,
My study bible says that Jesus was talking about using the wealth that God gave us to help people who are in need. By becoming friends with people,by helping them, we can also lead them to Jesus Christ. Of course your motives have to be pure and that you are glorifying God and not yourself. Hope that helps.

Good answer, ALLFORHIM.

From a Catholic perspective, I would also add that you would have the added benefit of, if these people that had been led to Christ because of your generosity of time, talent and treasure precede you in going to be with the Lord, you will have friends praying for you in heaven.

“I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth, so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.”

What a deal!

 

[Daniel_Marsh]

8"The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light. 9I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.

10"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. 11So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? 12And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?

13"No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."

I see the text as one being shrewd in handling our trusts, riches to reach the lost — making the best use of stewardship.

 

[ALLFORHIM]

Good answer, ALLFORHIM.

 

[Voco_proTatiano]

Can someone please help me understand this passage ESPECIALLY verse 9.

“Make friends for yourselves with wordly wealth”

This i can not get my head around.

Thanks for your help.
Love
Michael Ivan Mendieta

Dear Michael,
I have noticed, during a reverse translation check on my work on the Codex Fuldensis Gospel, that there is in the Old Latin, which is thre source for this harmonized Gospel, a reading which differs from Jerome’s.
I cross checked it thoroughly, in case it was a copying error, but found it supported by the Old High German of the Codex Sangallensis.
Take a look, and see what you think:-
sangallen56.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Page175.htm#CVIII
and the following two pages.
Verse 11 translated, according to this reading is thus:-
If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon, who trusts(2) you with that which is your own(1)?
My footnotes:-
(1) ‘vestrum’: vulgate has ‘verum’, ‘your own’ in place of ‘the truth’. OHG supports Latin, so not a copying error in this document.
(2) ‘credit’: vulgate has ‘credet’, present tense in place of future. Likewise OHG supports Latin.
The context seems to thus connect with loving enemies, and dealing fairly with them.

 

[Black_Knight_MI]

How about using the things of the world but not belonging to the world…