Listening to the class tonight, I heard a sentence, which is said to come from the Bible: "Whatever you have, give it twice to make it redundant;" If you don't have it, take the rest from him. "
So, I carefully searched the source, context and significance of this sentence.
The original text of this sentence is Matthew 25: 29: "For whoever has, more will be given to him, so that he may have more;" No, even what he has will be taken away. "
Looking at this passage alone can easily lead to ambiguity, as if "the rich will always be rich, and the poor will be poorer."
In fact, this passage is in a complete paragraph. Matthew chapter 25, 1-30, tells two stories:
One is a clever virgin, one is a stupid virgin, and the other is entrusted according to ability (1,200, 2,200, 5,200). In the sense of the story, "whatever you have" in this sentence refers to a confident, always ready and loyal servant. Because they have fulfilled their mission and won the reward from their master, they are called "give him what you have". And "nothing" refers to those who are lucky, unprepared, lazy and good at explaining their mistakes. Because of their negligence, their master had to punish them, so they had "everything is not, even what he has."
This passage is easy to be misinformed, so we should understand it comprehensively.
God bless you!