Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
Ver. 28. Take therefore the talent from him] God will take his own, and be gone from an unworthy people or person, Hosea 2:9. The idol shepherd's "arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye utterly darkened," Zechariah 11:17. It is no hard matter to observe a wane and decay of God's gifts in them that use them not; till at last, Zedekiah like, they may say, "When did the Spirit depart from me?" 1 Kings 22:24. And as many of Ishbosheth's friends shrank together with Abner, so do men's abilities fail amain, when once they begin to fail, till at last God lays them aside, as so many broken vessels, and cause them to be forgotten, as dead men out of mind, Psalms 31:21 .