Sometimes servants get behind the Holy Spirit in their work, and try to feed the household of God on last year s meat, when the Spirit wants to give the children bread right from the bakery, new and fresh. The servant that is so doing when Jesus comes will be made a ruler in His kingdom. First, he says in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming. Third, he takes his place at the soda fountain and begins to eat and drink with the world. That this last verse does not refer to the final hell, I am sure.
Nothing is said about everlasting fire, as mentioned in Matt.
The meaning is that the evil servant will be left to go into The Great Tribulation, which is a type of hell. Instead of cut him asunder, the margin gives it cut him off, that is, cut him off from the Bridehood honors, and leave him to enter The Great Tribulation. So the burden of the message in the verses of our lesson is that of readiness and watchfulness. The clear teaching of Christ as touching His second advent into the world, as we have said so many times, is that it is likely to occur at any moment. Any individual or church that fails to make the proper prepara tion for His coming, and fails to look for Him at every moment, fails to obey the clear instructions of our Lord.