Posted by:
Wally Prince
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Date: September 20, 2019 11:49PM
"You have been faithful with a few things. I will put you in charge of many things." (Things = wives)
"Therefore take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten." (Talent = wife)
Sounds ridiculous?
The founding fathers of Mormon polygamy believed that the parable was about polygamy and multiple wives.
----> "In April of 1843, the Prophet told Benjamin F. Johnson “that he would preach a sermon that day for me, which I would understand, while the rest of the congregation would not comprehend his meaning. His subject was the ten talents spoken of by the Savior, ‘unto him that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundantly, but from that hath not (or will not receive) shall be taken away that which he hath, (or might have had.)’ Plainly giving me to understand that the talents represented wives and children as the principle of enlargement throughout the great future, to those who were heirs of Salvation” (Andrew F. Ehat, and Lyndon W. Cook, eds. The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph [Orem, Utah: Grandin Book Company, 1980], 2 April 1843 [2] Note, No. 9., p.269).
[Note in the revelation on Celestial Marriage (D&C 132) there are various phrases taken from the parable of the talents such as in D&C 132:44.]
http://emp.byui.edu/satterfieldb/quotes/Parable%20Talents.html