那领五他连得的和领二他连得的，用这些银子作买卖
那领五他连得的，另外赚了五他连得。那领二他连得的，也照样另赚了二他连得。用银子作买卖，表征运用主所给我们的恩赐；另外赚了银子，表征我们已经完全用上从主所领受的恩赐，没有任何的损失或浪费。
按照二十四章，奴仆要供应粮食给家人。这是指将滋养的话，带着基督的丰富作生命的供应，服事给主家里的人。然而，这里说到用银子作买卖，使银子繁增。因此，我们服事的结果有两面。第一面是别人得喂养，得着丰富的滋养。第二面是主的家业得着繁增。例如，我们越传福音，福音就越丰富。真理也是这样。当我们把真理服事给别人时，真理就繁增。圣徒和教会也是这样。
那领一他连得的，掘开地，把银子埋藏了
是那领一他连得的，就是领受最小恩赐的人。恩赐最小的人，很容易对自己的恩赐没有正确的运用。地乃是象征世界，所以掘开地是表征钻进世界。任何与世界的联合、牵连，甚至一点世俗的交谈，都会埋藏主给我们的恩赐。把主人的银子埋藏起来，表征将主的恩赐弃之不用，以属地的借口为掩饰，任其荒废。任何不运用主恩赐的借口，都是把恩赐埋藏起来。那些领一他连得的人，认为所得的恩赐最小，常有这种埋藏恩赐的危险。
在这比喻中，那领一他连得的奴仆没有繁增。比方说，在其一地区也许有一个教会。十年之后，那地区仍然只有一个教会。有些人也许以为那领一他连得的奴仆作得好，没有失去他的银子，并且把主所有的归还祂。然而，我们服事的结果，必须是我们的银子繁增。主的旨意不是要我们仅仅保持他所赐给我们的。你若仅仅忠信的保守福音、真理和教会，没有任何繁增，主要说你是懒惰的，甚至称你为恶仆。主不管我们的借口，祂只在意一他连得繁增为二他连得。这是严肃的事。我们服事的结果，必须是别人得喂养和饱足，并且银子得繁增。
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Trading with the Talents for Multiplication – Matt. 25:16-18
Those Who Received Five Talents and Those Who Received Two Talents
He who received the five talents went and traded with them and gained another five; similarly, he who received the two gained another two. To trade with the talents signifies using the gift the Lord has given us, and to gain other talents signifies that the gift we received from the Lord has been used to the fullest extent, without any loss or waste.
According to chapter twenty-four, the slave is to supply food to those in the household. This refers to the ministering of the nourishing Word with the riches of Christ as the life supply to those in the Lord’s house. Here, however, it speaks of trading with the talents to cause the talents to multiply. Therefore, the result of our service has two aspects. The first aspect is that others are fed and given rich nourishment. The second aspect is that the Lord’s possessions are multiplied. For example, the more we preach the gospel, the richer the gospel becomes. It is the same with the truths. As we minister the truths to others, the truths multiply. This is also true of the saints and the churches.
Those Who Received One Talent
The main emphasis in this parable is on the one-talented one, the one who received the smallest gift. It is very easy for the least-gifted ones to fail to make the proper use of their gift. As the earth signifies the world, so to dig in the earth signifies getting into the world. Any association, any involvement with the world, even a little worldly talk, will bury the Lord’s gift to us. Hiding the Lord’s silver signifies rendering the Lord’s gift useless, letting it lie waste under the cloak of certain earthly excuses. Any excuse for not using the Lord’s gift is to hide it. This is always the danger with the one-talented ones, those who consider their gift as the smallest.
With the one-talented slave in this parable, there is no multiplication. For instance, in a certain area there may be one church. Ten years later, there is still just one church in that area. Some may think that the one-talented slave did well in not losing his talent and in returning to the Lord what was his. But the issue of our service must be the multiplication of our talents. It is not the Lord’s will for us simply to maintain what he has given us. If you are faithful merely to keep the gospel, the truth and the church without any multiplication, the Lord will say that you are slothful. Furthermore, he will call you an evil slave. The Lord does not care for our argument or excuses. He cares only that the one talent is multiplied into two. This is a serious matter. Our service must issue in the feeding and satisfaction of others and in the multiplication of the talent.