Now when evening came the master of the vineyard said to his bailiff, 'Summon the labourers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last and going on to the first.'

Joanna the wife of Chuza the chancellor of Herod, Susanna, and a number of others, who ministered to him out of their means.

So he summoned him and said, 'What is this I hear about you? Hand in your accounts; you cannot be factor any longer.'

Ah, I know what I will do, so that people will welcome me to their houses when I am deposed from the factorship.'

Well, the master praised the dishonest factor for looking ahead; for the children of this world look further ahead in dealing with their own generation than the children of Light.

I get a reward if I do it of my own accord, whereas to do it otherwise is no more than for a steward to discharge his trust.

he is under guardians and trustees till the time fixed by his father.

for I am a minister of the church by the divine commission which has been granted me in your interests, to make a full presentation of God's message ??26 of that open secret which, though concealed from ages and generations of old, has now been disclosed to the saints of God.