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Luk 16:12. Ἀλλοτρίῳ, that which is another’s) In the case of the external goods of the world, in the food needed for the belly. See 1Co 6:13; 1Ti 6:7. In a different point of view it is carnal things, not spiritual, which are called our own, 1Co 9:11 [If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?]. Nay, indeed, all the good things of God are alien to a man, before that he becomes a believer, even those which are inferior and prior to the rest: but when a man has become a believer, all things become his own, even the greatest and the highest goods.-τὸ ὑμέτερον, that which is your own) that which belongs to the sons and heirs of God: ch. Luk 6:20 [“Yours is the Kingdom of God”] 1Co 3:22 [“All things are yours,” etc.]. It virtually and in fact refers to the same thing as τὸ ἀληθινὸν, the true good, Luk 16:11.-ὑμῖν, unto you) This implies that he who fails to obtain salvation, might nevertheless have obtained it.-δώσει, will give) The verb πιστεύσει, will commit, corresponds to the noun τὸ ἀληθινὸν, Luk 16:11, and refers solely to this life, during which is the time of probation; the verb δώσει, will give, corresponds to the pronoun τὸ ὑμέτερον, that which is your own, and refers especially to the future life, in which there is no risk of faithlessness. Wherefore inasmuch as in the case of the one world faithlessness has place, but has not in the other, the cause why the true goods are not to be committed to those who have not evinced fidelity in the case of the unjust mammon, is the truth and exalted worth of the things which must not be exposed to any risk; and the cause why the goods which are their own, are not to be given to those who have not evinced faithfulness in the case of the goods which belong to another, is the unworthiness of those who had been intended to receive them as their own,-that unworthiness incapacitating them for so great an inheritance. No man can with the one and the same earnestness administer both things that are ‘unrighteous’ and things that are ‘true:’ or enjoy with one and the same soul both the things “that belong to another,” and the things that are “his own.”