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Originally Posted by Drake
What jail do the jailers manage? And under what terms do those put into it, get out? .
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According to the story, they get out when they pay their debt. The Greek word is torturers. Are there torturers in outer darkness?
It's a parable. That we are not "given to know," according to Matt 13:11. But it's obvious that Jesus is speaking in imagery.
The lord had compassion/pity, the servant didn't. The servant cast his fellowservant into prison. But for not paying it forward, the lord cast the servant to the torturers. If it means outer darkness are there torturers there?
Speaking of outer darkness. What is the outer darkness? Is it an actual physical place? The actors in the parable are are physical people.
If it's physical, can we earn wages in outer darkness? And what is it made of? Where is it? Is it worse than this place? Do we still work for food? build houses? invent the use of electricity, and light bulbs? Or is there none of those. We just sit, day and night, in outer darkness, forever weeping and gnashing? If we weep, we must be breathing.
But like Jesus told his disciples, it's not given for us to know.
Regardless of all that, I don't think this parable is about outer darkness. But Matthew is the right place to go to for outer darkness. In all the New Testament only Matthew mentions it. And only three times. Three times in the whole new testament? Paul doesn't mention it. And even the Apocalypse of John don't mention it. What a nebulous place is this outer darkness. Sounds scary tho ... or at least very lonely, and boring. Prolly no internet.