Matthew 25:27

“Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, etc.] “Trapezites”, or “tablets”, the same whom the Jews f1450 call µynjlwç, and is the same word which is here used in Munster’s Hebrew Gospel; who were so called from the table that stood before them, on which they told, and paid their money, and the exchange and use: hence all the Oriental versions here read, “thou shouldest have put my money to, or on the table”; put it into the hand of these bankers, where it would have been not only safe, as in the earth, where it was hid, but also would have made some increase, and would have been returned with profit; and then at my coming I should have received my own with usury: this…”

“The exchangers - The “exchangers” were persons who were in the habit of borrowing money, or receiving it on deposit at a low rate of interest, to be loaned to others at higher interest. They commonly sat by “tables” in the temple, with money ready to exchange or loan. See Matthew 21:12. This money was left with the servant, not to exchange, nor to increase it by any such idle means, but by honest industry and merchandise; but since he was too indolent for that, he ought at least to have loaned it to the exchangers, that his master might have received some benefit from it. With usury - With interest, increase, or gain. The word “usury,” in our language, has a bad signification, meaning…”

“Thou oughtest therefore - On that very account, on thy own supposition, to have improved my talent, as far as was possible. Matthew 25:29”

“oughtest: Luk 19:22, Luk 19:23; Rom 3:19; Jde 1:15 with: Deu 23:19, Deu 23:20 Matthew 25:28”