Hilary of Poitiers, on Matt 25:14

“For even as a man going into a far country, called his servants, and delivered to them his goods;”

“Or, By this servant is understood the Jewish people which continues in the Law, and says I was afraid of thee, as through fear of the old commandments abstaining from the exercise of evangelical liberty; and it says, Lo, there is that is thine, as though it had continued in those things which the Lord commanded, when yet it knew that the fruits of righteousness should be reaped there, where the Law had not been sown, and that there should be gathered from among the Gentiles some who were not scattered of the seed of Abraham.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.