Matthew 18:34 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Delivered him to the tormentors - The word “tormentors” here probably means keepers of the prisons. Torments were inflicted on criminals, not on debtors. They were inflicted by stretching the limbs, or pinching the flesh, or putting out the eyes, or taking off the skin while alive, etc. It is not probable that anything of this kind is intended, but only that the servant was punished by imprisonment until the debt should be paid.

Matthew 18:34

34 And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.