Matthew 24:48-49 Meaning

The seventh and last motive, looking especially to ministers: If any man, and especially a minister, do not watch to do the work entrusted to him, he shall be destroyed fearfully at the Lord’s coming. Therefore it is necessary to watch for the Lord’s coming.

And here we have the portrait of an evil servant, namely, of an unfaithful minister:

1. He has an evil heart of misbelief; he believes not Christ’s coming to judgment, nor the truth which he preaches to others. He saith in his heart, my master delayeth his coming, that is, he looks not for his coming.

2. He will not fail to malign, envy, traduce and injure to his power, the more painful and faithful his fellow servants be; for he smites his fellow servants.

3. One way or other he strengthens iniquity and the hands of the wicked, that they should not repent nor turn from their iniquity; for, He eateth and drinketh with the drunken.

Dickson, David – A Brief Exposition of the Evangel of Jesus Christ According to Matthew (1651)