{"query": "The Servant Who Buried the Talent", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_15a8336a6fb0", "title": "The Servant Who Buried the Talent", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Receives one talent; afraid of the master, hides it in the ground; returns exactly what was given; called wicked and slothful; the talent given to the one who already had ten.\n\nFailure mode: Fear-driv"}, {"id": "card_c_90472e472ae6", "title": "A parable — Fear failure ↔ The Servant Who Buried the Talent", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "A servant was given one talent and feared losing it, so he buried it in the ground. When the master returned, the talent was safe... The master called him wicked... Faithfulness uses the gift; fear hi"}, {"id": "card_n_04502b1ebf95", "title": "A parable — Fear failure", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A servant was given one talent and feared losing it, so he buried it in the ground. When the master returned, the talent was safe — exactly as it had been given. The master called him wicked, not for "}, {"id": "card_c_84d340c618ab", "title": "A parable — Fear failure ↔ Easton: Talent", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "A servant was given one talent and feared losing it, so he buried it in the ground.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_n_20a9445137c0", "title": "Revelation 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,\n2. who testifie"}, {"id": "card_src_word_house_servant", "title": "house servant", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "house servant: (noun) a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household — syn: domestic, domestic help"}, {"id": "card_n_e7b5f362ea38", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_02: Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth.(1) I am Thy servant; O give me understan...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth.(1) I am Thy servant; O give me understanding that I may know Thy testimonies. Incline my heart unto the words of Thy mouth.(2) Let thy speech distil as the dew. Th"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_30_10", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 30:10", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 30:10 — Here is, I. A caution not to abuse other people's servants any more than our own, nor to make mischief between them and their masters, for it is an ill office, invidious, and what "}, {"id": "card_src_word_civil_servant", "title": "civil servant", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "civil servant: (noun) a public official who is a member of the civil service"}, {"id": "card_n_9d11f44229d4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_001: O Lord, I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant, and the son of Thy handmaid: Thou...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O Lord, I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant, and the son of Thy handmaid: Thou hast broken my bonds in sunder. I will offer to Thee the sacrifice of praise. Let my heart and my tongue praise Thee; yea,"}, {"id": "card_n_1d4a3d2b0206", "title": "Easton: Chedorlaomer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(= Khudur-Lagamar of the inscriptions), king of Elam. Many centuries before the age of Abraham, Canaan and even the Sinaitic peninsula had been conquered by Babylonian kings, and in the time of Abraha"}, {"id": "card_n_4a1031501116", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_032: Far be it, Lord, far be it from the heart of Thy servant who here confesseth ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Far be it, Lord, far be it from the heart of Thy servant who here confesseth unto Thee, far be it, that, be the joy what it may, I should therefore think myself happy. For there is a joy which is not "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_james_1_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on James 1:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On James 1:1 — We have here the inscription of this epistle, which consists of three principal parts.\nI. The character by which our author desires to be known: James, a servant of God, and of the Lord"}, {"id": "card_n_3664c8c8b024", "title": "A parable — Unforgiveness debt", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A servant was forgiven ten thousand talents. He went out and found a fellow servant who owed him a hundred pence, and seized him by the throat. The lord called him back. 'Shouldest not thou also have "}, {"id": "card_n_ebf734c6d3cc", "title": "The Nicene Creed", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We believe in one God, the Father almighty,\nmaker of heaven and earth,\nof all things visible and invisible.\n\nAnd in one Lord Jesus Christ,\nthe only-begotten Son of God,\nbegotten of the Father before a"}, {"id": "card_n_25bba71f200c", "title": "Psalm 135 — Psalm 135", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Praise Yah! Praise the name of Yahweh! Praise him, you servants of Yahweh, you who stand in the house of Yahweh, in the courts of our God's house. Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good. Sing praises to his n"}, {"id": "card_n_67a10b6fda93", "title": "Easton: Deacon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Anglicized form of the Greek word diaconos, meaning a “runner,” “messenger,” “servant.” For a long period a feeling of mutual jealousy had existed between the “Hebrews,” or Jews proper, who spoke the "}, {"id": "card_n_38d24eaf3180", "title": "Colossians 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,\n2. to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the L"}, {"id": "card_n_00531d1d59cc", "title": "Revelation 5", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.\n2. 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