“So his fellow-servant fell down and besought him, saying, “Have patience with me, and I will pay you.”
Then, just as he himself had previously done, the fellow-servant fell on his knees and begged for time to pay the debt. He promised, and this time with some likelihood of payment, that eventually full payment would be made. The similarity with the previous situation is deliberate. He was seeking the same kind of forgiveness that had been given to the other, and it should therefore have spurred him into recognition if he had had the smallest amount of true moral awareness. But he was so hardened that he was unmoved by the forgiveness that had been offered to him, and did not even associate it with the other.