Matthew 25:25
Douay-Rheims
And being afraid I went and hid thy talent in the earth: behold here thou hast that which is thine.
Gregory the Great
(ubi sup.) To hide one’s talent in the earth is to devote the ability we have received to worldly business.
Source details
A.D. 604 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 25:14-30
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.