The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: LUK 19:20 And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound,
which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
LUK 19:21 For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou
takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not
sow.
LUK 19:22 And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge
thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man,
taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
LUK 19:23 Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that
at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
LUK 19:24 And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound,
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