Interpretations
A talent was a unit of weight of about 80 pounds avoirdupois, although there is some scholarly disagreement about the exact size of a talent. See Talent (measurement). Although a talent could measure anything, when used without qualification it was understood to refer to silver as a unit of currency, worth about 6,000 denarii. Since a denarius was the usual payment for a day's labour, a talent was roughly the value of twenty years of work by an ordinary person.
In Matthew, the opening words appear to link the parable to the parable of the Ten Virgins, which immediately precedes it. That parable deals with wisdom in an eschatological context. This parable, however, has been interpreted in several ways.
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