Thematic Bible: The hardness of the master
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Excuses » Seven excuses offered for the neglect of duty » The hardness of the master
And the man who had received the one thousand came up and said, 'Sir, I knew you were a hard man, who reaped where you had not sown, and gathered where you had not threshed, and I was frightened, and I went and hid your thousand dollars in the ground. Here is your money!'