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今天的经文提醒我们，因着耶稣，我们被呼召活出祂为我们所预备的整全生命。我们日常生活中很重要的一部分就是：“主怎样饶恕了你们，你们也要怎样饶恕人。”（参西 3:13）

耶稣在《马太福音》第十八章讲了一个重要的比喻。一个王在跟他的仆人算账，发现有一个仆人欠他一万他连得。这个人付不起钱，于是王下令把他全家都卖了来偿还。但当这个人请求王的宽容时，王竟然赦免了他的巨额债务。然而，被宽恕的人对别人却并不慷慨。他追讨一个欠他一百银币却还不上的人。那个人请求他的宽容，但这个被王宽容的人拒绝了宽容别人的请求，把他投入了欠债人的监狱。王听见这话，就大怒，把第一个人交给狱卒，等他还清所欠的债才能出来。

当我们思考这个比喻时，不妨这样来理解，一百个银币是一百天的工资，而一个他连得是大约二十年的工资。所以一万他连得相当于二十万年的工资！

耶稣是以比喻这样的方式在说，我们欠神的债是无法偿还的，但神已经赦免了。因此，我们蒙召彼此饶恕，正如神在基督里饶恕了我们一样。（参弗 4:17-32）

In our reading for today we are reminded that because of Jesus, we are called to live into the full life he has made possible for us. And a crucial part of our daily living is this: "Forgive as the Lord forgave you."

Jesus told an important parable about this in Matthew 18. A king was settling accounts with his subjects, and he found that one owed him 10,000 talents. The man was unable to pay, so the king ordered that the man's entire family be sold. But when the man asked for patience, the king forgave his huge debt. The forgiven man, however, was not so generous. He found someone who owed him 100 denarii but could not pay. The second man begged for mercy, but the forgiven man refused and threw him into a debtor's prison. When the king heard about this, he became angry and handed the first man over to the jailers until he should paid off his debt.

As we think about this parable, it can help to understand that 100 denarii was 100 days' wages, and that one talent was about 20 years' wages. So 10,000 talents was about 200,000 years' wages!

In this way Jesus was saying that our debt to God is unpayable for us—and yet God has forgiven it. Therefore we are called to forgive one another, just as God in Christ has forgiven us (see also Ephesians 4:17-32).