John Trapp on Matthew 25:28

Verse 28. Take therefore the talent from him] God will takeHos[illegible: 2 letters]. 9. his own, and be gone from an unworthy people or person. The Idol-shepherds arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye utterly darkned, Zech. 11. 17. It is no hard matter to observe a wain and decay of Gods gifts in them that use them not; till at last, Zedekiah like, they may say, When did the Spirit depart from 1 King. 22. 24. me? And, as many of Ishbosheths friends shrank together with Abner, so do mens abilities fail amain, when once they begin to fail, till at last God laies them aside, as so many broken vessels, and cause them to be forgotten, as dead men out of minde, Psal. 31. 21.