Scriptural basis for rubberbanding

Infrared
Infrared Posts: 240 Tile Toppler
edited April 2014 in MPQ General Discussion
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Workers_in_the_Vineyard
Matthew 20:1-16

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius[a] for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

“About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went.

“He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’

“‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.

“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’

“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’

“The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’

“But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

“So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    heh good find
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Related Easter sermon of John Chrysostom:

    http://anglicansonline.org/special/East ... aster.html
    http://rumkatkilise.org/paschalstjc.htm
  • Unknown
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    It still doesn't make sense.

    Unless the lesson is hard work doesn't pay. Or more like hard work not being recognized and rewarded justly.
  • Dayv
    Dayv Posts: 4,449 Chairperson of the Boards
    Is there another parable where the more gardeners you have, the harder the grass gets to cut?
  • _M4ru_
    _M4ru_ Posts: 91 Match Maker
    Worldrevolver wrote:
    Unless the lesson is hard work doesn't pay. Or more like hard work not being recognized and rewarded justly.

    Or "don't be a sucker, don't come first". icon_e_wink.gif
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I only read the last line. Got it.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Worldrevolver wrote:
    It still doesn't make sense.

    Unless the lesson is hard work doesn't pay. Or more like hard work not being recognized and rewarded justly.

    If the world worked as it "makes sense" we wouldn't need scripture or gurus or whatever to point out the difference for us, hm?
  • Unknown
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    Worldrevolver wrote:
    It still doesn't make sense.

    Unless the lesson is hard work doesn't pay. Or more like hard work not being recognized and rewarded justly.

    That's because point of the parable isn't about the workers (or their hard work). It's about the owner, who is equally generous to all.

    For the PvE though, the closer fable would be a modified version of the 'tortoise and the hare'.

    Except this time the hare wakes up after his 12 hour nap and springs past the tortoise who kept on trudging and did not observe the refresh cycles.

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