THE DENARIES AND THE TALENTS / ΤΑ ΔΗΝΑΡΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΑ ΤΑΛΑΝΤΑ
In the parable of the two debtor slaves in Matthew's gospel, the first owed a thousand talents and the second a hundred denarii. Knowing that the daily wage in the time of Christ was a silver denarius and considering the month to be about 25 days' wages, the second slave owed 4 months' wages. The daily wage today is paid about 40 euros, so he owed about 4,000 euros. The first slave owed 10,000 talents, one talent was 100 pounds of silver and each pound was worth 100 denarii, that is, 100 days' wages. To understand the difference with the debt of another, if we assume that a town has 10,000 residents, all the residents of the city would have to work for all their working years, that is, for about 35 years, in order to accumulate wages worth 10,000 talents. In the photo, the silver denarius of the time of Christ with the image of the emperor Tiberius. +E. G . ---------------------------------------------------- Στην παραβολή του ευαγγελίου του Ματθαίου για του...