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Serving Two Masters

Data

(1) Thom 47:2
(2a) 1Q or ?2Q: Luke 16:13 = Matt 6:24
(2b) 2Clem 6:1

Texts

(1) Thom 47:2

47 Jesus said, "A person cannot mount two horses or bend two bows. 2And a slave cannot serve two masters, otherwise that slave will honor the one and offend the other. 3 "Nobody drinks aged wine and immediately wants to drink young wine. 4Young wine is not poured into old wineskins, or they might break, and aged wine is not poured into a new wineskin, or it might spoil. 5An old patch is not sewn onto a new garment, since it would create a tear." [Complete Gospels]

 

(2a) 1Q or ?2Q: Luke 16:13

16:13 No slave can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth."

= Matt 6:24
6:24 "No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

 

(2b) 2Clem 6:1

/1/And the Lord says:---“No servant can serve two masters.” If we desire to serve both God and Mammon it is unprofitable to us, /2/“For what is the advantage if a man gains the whole world but loses his soul?” /3/Now the world that is, and the world to come, are two enemies. /4/This world speaks of adultery, and corruption, and love of money, and deceit, but that world bids these things farewell. /5/We cannot then be the friends of both; but we must bid farewell to this world, to consort with that which is to come. /6/We reckon then that it is better to hate the things which are here, for they are little, and short-lived, and corruptible, but to love the things which are there, the good things which are incorruptible. [Sayings Parallels]

 

RCL: Proper 20C
ECUSA: & RC: Sunday 25C

advanceWord:

 

Jesus Seminar

Text	Item	Source	JS Mtg	%Red	%Pink	%Gray	%Black	W Avg	Color
Thom 47:2	22	Q, T	89Tor	3	56	23	18	0.48	Gray
	22	Q, T	90Son	17	61	22	0	0.65	Pink
Luke 16:13	22	Q, T	89Tor	21	46	23	10	0.59	Pink
	22	Q, T	90Son	25	67	8	0	0.72	Pink
Matt 6:24	22	Q, T	89Tor	21	46	23	10	0.59	Pink
	22	Q, T	90Son	25	67	8	0	0.72	Pink
2Clem 6:1	22	Q	89Tor	0	28	36	36	0.31	Gray
	22	Q	90Son	8	54	38	0	0.57	Pink
2Clem 6:6	22	2CLEM	89Tor	0	9	25	66	0.15	Black
	22	2CLEM	90Son	4	0	8	88	0.07	Black

The commentary in The Five Gospels observes:

This aphorism was voted pink ... because it is terse, pithy, and memorable. It accords well with the way the disciples remembered Jesus' public speech. Yet Luke appends it here to the parable of the shrewd manager as a warning against wealth; he thinks of it as related to the parable. It probably did not ocur in such a context originally. The aphorism may have had single-mindedness as its original point (suggested by the Matthean context). (p. 359)

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