10. Oh that I might safely say of you at that time: “Lord, Thou gavest me five talents, behold I have gained five other talents;” S. Matt. xxv. 20. and that I might show the precious talents of your virtues! “For we have a treasure in earthen vessels.” 2 Cor. iv. 7. These are the talents which the Lord bids us spiritually to trade with, or the two coins of the New and the Old Testament, which that Samaritan in the Gospel left for the man robbed by the thieves, for the purpose of getting his wounds healed. S. Luke x. 35.