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Matthew 20 – Does The One Denarius Signify Equal Rewards/Glory?
MHFM: Since various Protestants wrongly believed that the formal cause of justification is the alien righteousness of Christ imputed to the person (rather than sanctifying grace truly inhering in the changed person’s soul), they (wrongly) held that all the justified were equally righteous. In connection with that false position, some might conclude that Matthew 20’s reference to all the workers receiving a denarius implies that in Heaven all receive equal rewards or glory.
Matthew 20:9-16- “And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’ But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’ So the last will be first, and the first last.”
However, St. Robert Bellarmine makes a good point by explaining that in Matthew 20 the denarius signifies equality of eternity, not of glory or rewards.
St. Robert Bellarmine, De Iustificatione, Book 3, Chap. 16: “For that denarius signifies equality of eternity, not of glory or excellence.”
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